Need help with a practice question

Question

hello there, i've encountered a problem in a pratie question whereby I cant get the desired output, instead it turned into a string operation. This is in python code.

Here is the question:

Write a program that takes a number as input and
- returns its double, if the number is even
- returns its triple, if the number is odd
- returns 0, if number is 0

Sample Input:
1

Sample Output:
3

This is the code that I used:
number = input()
#your code goes here
if number == "/2":
print(number*2)
elif number == "0":
print("0")
else:
print(number*3)

Answer 1

I think this will help you

https://code.sololearn.com/cyK32pDjSkad/?ref=app

Answer 2

Soumik thank you it works ! Didnt think of using quotient to do it