[Tutor] Making a Primary Number List generator

[Dave Angel]

On 05/13/2013 07:55 PM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 14/05/13 00:01, Daniel Magruder wrote:
>
>>    <SNIP>
>
>
>
> That seems OK but it would be simpler with a for loop:
>
> def counting_primes():
>     primelist = []
>     for prime in range(2,1000):
>        if isprime(prime):
>           primelist.append(prime)
>     return primelist

Actually no, since the OP's looking for the first 1000 primes not for 
all the primes under 1000.

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DaveA