On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:34:47 +0100, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote:
>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 >>> 7919 7919 ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
