Newbie: req for a bit of tutorial type help.

[Aesop]

Howdy,

Thanks for the quick response ;-) . I have the Win32 distribution, which
does not contain the file you mentioned. Still very interested. know where i
can find it?

TIA

yours in zeros and ones.....



"Moshe Zadka" <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.10.10003121707240.2178-100000 at sundial...
> For a program in Python that prints primes, look in the source
> distribution, at the Demo/scripts/primes.py
>
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Aesop wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >     At risk of repeating myself, i have been using python for about 2
days
> > now. its been at least six years since i last looked at "C" and the old
> > brain has been flushed and reloaded with a lot of non programming type
> > things ;-)
> >
> > Am trying to write a program to calculate prime numbers. Trying to do
this
> > crossword type thing that is entirely mathematical in nature and i need
a
> > list of prime numbers of 2 digits. Thinking this is a damned good excuse
for
> > figuring out how to programme, again, I went off and downloaded Python.
> >
> > Writing up a brute force type algorithm (no points for creative thinking
on
> > my behalf). What i need is something that will perform divisions of the
> > prospective prime number, and report whether there is any "remainder".
I.E
> > the modulus operator of C.
> >
> > anyone point me to , or supply some good info for a raw recruit?
> >
> >
> > Yours in zeros and ones,
> >         Ambrose. S
> >
> >
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> >
>
> --
> Moshe Zadka <mzadka at geocities.com>.
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/prescod_0300.html
>
>