Task 1 is no longer passing?

Question

So, I understand that someone had moved the position of their code in order to get the challenge to acknowledge Task 1 as passing.
However I've tried every combination of moving my code about that comes to mind and I'm still just as stumped when trying to understand the logic of why Task 1 would no longer be passing.
Should the even_odd function not come first, as that is where I setup a function used later on in my while loop? While I would appreciate an answer, an explanation would be even more helpful.
Thank you so much.
```even.py
import random
def even_odd(num):
    # If % 2 is 0, the number is even.
    # Since 0 is falsey, we have to invert it with not.
    return not num % 2
start = 5
while start:
    x = random.randint(1, 99)
    if even_odd(x) != 0:
        print("{} is even".format(x))
    elif:
        print("{} is odd".format(x))
start -= 1
```

James J. McCombie · Accepted Answer

I attempted the challenge and this is the code I passed with.
```python
import random
def even_odd(num):
    # If % 2 is 0, the number is even.
    # Since 0 is falsey, we have to invert it with not.
    return not num % 2
start = 5
while start:
    x = random.randint(1, 99)
    if even_odd(x):
        print("{} is even".format(x))
    else:
        print("{} is odd".format(x))
    start -= 1
```
I believe the problem you were having was that the challenge interpreter was likely confused by the if statement condition checking. since the even_odd(x) returns True or False as you know, depending on the value of x, it is enough to write
python
if even_odd(x):
    # block code

what you code would do is evaluate True != 0, or False != 0, depending on what even_odd(x) returns. In both cases you would get an evaluation down to True, or False, so it should in theory work, perhaps you could verify yourself by running it in the repl. I guess the syntactic checker in the challenge was just to ridged?????
That's my nest guess anyway, good to hear you got through the challenge.

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Task 1 is no longer passing?

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James J. McCombie

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