What is wrong in this code??

Question

number = int(input ("Enter the number"))
if number % 2 = 2 :
print ("This is an even no.")
else:
print ("This is an odd no.")

Answer 1

Prince

number % 2 == 0

single equal (=) is used to assign value not used to compare values.

and what about 2?

Is it not even number?

Answer 2

Please explain concept of 2.

Answer 3

As AJ said it should be 0

Why zero?

Do you know what % means??

It calculates the remainder, right.

So if we do:
print(4%2)

then the answer will be zero it means that for any even number the remainder will be zero if we will divide it by 2.

That's why we use:
...
x%2==0:
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