In the spirit of pointless pessimization and obfuscation I have crushed
something very similar to Alex Martelli's eratosthenes function onto a
single line. It's truly monstrous, but somewhat entertaining [Some
preemptive linebreaks added]:
def short():import itertools as it;D={};g=D.get;return (
q for q in it.count(2) if
D.__setitem__(it.dropwhile(D.__contains__,
xrange(g(q,q)+q,2**30,g(q,q))).next(),g(q,q))
or q not in D and D.pop(q,1))
I'm sure there's a lesson to this somewhere. Something like I need to
find something better to do with my spare time.
-tim
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