I think this is more correct because the input can be a negative number.
And -1 is not used for plurals

And I thought mine was clever, this one is the best easily.

Hey, thanks so much for the responses. I can see now what I've done is poor "grammar" if you will. I can see how a cummulative effect of these mistakes could make the code unessasarily difficult to read.

There's NO problem with your solution, just ... != None in your code looks strange, cuz it does not conform to the PEP8

Just a little suggestion.

love this

Ok thanks. I'm just not sure what you mean, could you explain?

PEP 8: E711 comparison to None should be 'if cond is not None:'

This is my favorite sort of kata, thanks for making it. Simple explanation, but the challenge comes when you actually try to work out how to do it. That being said, it makes total sense for the odd numbers to ignore the middle number. But, ignoring the two middle numbers for even numbers makes zero sense to me. I think the two middle numbers should be included for even numbers otherwise you aren't really determining if it's balanced or not.

Thank you for the response my friend

when you have an if statement in a one liner, you need to have an else also

python throws a syntaxError