[Tutor] Finding prime numbers

[christopher.henk at allisontransmission.com]

tutor-bounces at python.org wrote on 09/19/2007 12:38:49 PM:

> Sorry about that.
> 
> I have posted the code below:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> 
> '''A program to generate prime numbers when given 2 numbers'''
> 
> def isPrime(number):
>     number=abs(int(number))
>     #1 is not considered a prime number
>     if number<2:
>         return False
>     #2 is the only even prime number
>     if number==2:
>         return True
>     #no even prime numbers after 2
>     if not number&1:
>         return False
>     #to find all prime numbers we need to go up to the
>     #square root of the highest odd number
>     for x in range(3,int(number**0.5)+1,2):
>         if number%x==0:
>             return False
>         return True

Looks like you want to move the return True out one level of indentation.

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