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

def collatz(number): 
    if number%2==0:    
        return number//2
    elif number%2==1:
        return number*3+1
step=1 #counter variable for amusement and seeing how many steps for completion.
try: #in case of ValueError   
    number=int(input('Enter a Number for Collatz Sequencing:')) 
    while collatz(number)!=1:    
        print(collatz(number))
        number=int(collatz(number))
        if collatz(number)!=1: 
            print('Calculating step ' + str(step) + '.')
            step=step+1
        else:
            print ('Calculating step ' +str(step) + '.')
            print('1 Has Been Reached.')
except ValueError: 
     print('Enter an Integer please:')