> > On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Ray Holt wrote: > > > I am taking the MIT online course Introduction to Computer Science and > > Programming. I have a assignment to write a program to compute and > > print > > the 1000th. prime number. Can someone give me some leads on the > > correct > > code? Thanks, Ray
Tongue in cheek solution: import urllib2 url = 'http://primes.utm.edu/lists/small/10000.txt' primes = [] for line in urllib2.urlopen(url).read().splitlines(): values = line.split() if len(values) == 10: primes.extend(values) print primes[1000-1] Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
