On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Mensanator <mensana...@aol.com> wrote:
>> 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] > > Nice, but you can do better. > >>>> import gmpy >>>> n = 1 >>>> for i in xrange(1000): > n = gmpy.next_prime(n) >>>> print n > 7919 With the help of the solutions given so far, I can do even better than that: n = 7919 print n -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
