Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 05:34:06 -0700, tomusatov wrote:
>
>> I am not terribly familiar with Python, but am currently authoring an
>> integer sequence for www.oeis.org and was wondering if anyone in the
>> community could help me with authoring a Python program that outputs,
>> "Composite numbers that are one less than a composite number."
>
>
> Do you have a function to test for primality? For now, I'll assume you do.
>
>
> def is_prime(n):
> # Returns True if n is prime, False otherwise.
> # implementation left as an exercise
>
>
> # 0 (and 1) are neither prime nor composite; skip them.
> # 2 and 3 are prime; start at the first composite, 4
> i = 4
> for j in range(5, 1001):
> if not is_prime(j):
> print(i)
> i = j
I think that are "any numbers that are one less than a composite number"
while the OP wants only composite numbers that are one less than a composite
number". In code
from itertools import count, islice
def cntaoltacn():
prev = None
for i in count(2):
if is_prime(i):
prev = None
else:
if prev is not None:
yield prev
prev = i
print(list(islice(cntaoltacn(), 20)))
# [8, 9, 14, 15, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48,
49]
>
>
> The above will stop at 999. To go forever, use this instead:
>
>
>
> from itertools import count
> i = 4
> for j in count(5):
> if not is_prime(j):
> print(i)
> i = j
>
>
>
> Alternatively, if you have a function which efficiently returns primes
> one at a time, you can do this:
>
>
> n = 4 # start at the first composite
> for p in primes(5): # primes starting at 5
> print(list(range(n, p-1))
> n = p + 1
>
>
>
> This ought to print out lists of composites, starting with:
>
> []
> []
> [8, 9]
> []
> [14, 15]
>
>
> etc. Take care though: I have not tested this code.
>
>
>
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