Bugs item #1210832, was opened at 2005-05-29 08:28
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Gene (godhand)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: An error in Python Tutorial
Initial Comment:
In section 4.4, the program should be written as follow
to get the correct result:
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for n in range(2, 10):
for x in range(2, n):
if n % x == 0:
print n, 'equals', x, '*', n/x
break
if x == n-1:
print n, 'is a prime number'
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besides, the line "2 is a prime number" should not
appear in the result output.
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Comment By: Josiah Carlson (josiahcarlson)
Date: 2005-05-30 23:22
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The indentation on your proposed code addition was lost
during your post, re-post so that it is understandable.
Further, from mathworld.com:
"A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a
''prime'' for short) is a positive integer p > 1 that has no
positive integer divisors other than 1 and p itself. (More
concisely, a prime number p is a positive integer having
exactly one positive divisor other than 1.)"
That is to say, 2 is prime, so should appear in the result
output, and it seems to me that the code provided in
tutorial section 4.4 is correct.
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