Making a collatz program automate the boring stuff

Question

I\'m trying to write a Collatz program using the guidelines from a project found at the end of chapter 3 of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python. I\'m using python 3.

Answer 1

You can simply try this

while True:
 number=int(input('Enter next positive number or 0 to quit: '))
 iteration=0
 currentNumber=0
 item=1
 sumOfNumbers=0
 print(number,end='  ')
 if(number):
    while currentNumber !=1 :
        currentNumber=int(number/2) if(number%2==0) else number*3+1
        number=currentNumber
        iteration +=1; item +=1
        sumOfNumbers +=currentNumber
        print(currentNumber,end ='\n' if(item %5==0) else '  ')
    print('\nIt took ',iteration,'iterations to arrive at 1')
    print('The average  is ',round((sumOfNumbers/iteration),2))
 else :
    break