Program to compute and print 1000th prime number

[Wayne Brehaut]

On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:34:47 +0100, Andre Engels
<andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Mensanator <mensanator at 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

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