Newbie: req for a bit of tutorial type help.

[Moshe Zadka]

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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