I am not sure if you would classify this as a documentation bug or minor software bug

I have been teaching an Introduction to Programming using Python at Lehman College for more than half a dozen years.

For the first problem covering "if", I ask the students to write a program where the user is prompted to enter an integer and the program logic determines whether the number is odd or even.

I was surprised to see a student submission contain:

        if  number  % 2 == int()  :       #even

rather than

        if number % 2 ==   0:              #even

The Documentation did not say what happens if there was no argument.

I though an Exception would be thrown, but "no", int( )  returned a 0

Also   float()  returns 0.0

          Jeff Gitlin

          Lehman College

          Bronx, New York