Fun with fancy slicing

[Michael Hudson]

Dave Benjamin <ramen at lackingtalent.com> writes:

> Anyone have any other interesting applications of the extended slice syntax?

You can use it in a sieve prime finder (ooh, thread crossing :-):

/>> def sieve(p):
|..     candidates = range(p)
|..     for i in candidates[2:]:
|..         if not candidates[i]: continue
|..         n = len(candidates[2*i::i])
|..         candidates[2*i::i] = [0]*n
|..     return filter(None, candidates[2:])
\__ 
->> sieve(50)
[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47]

but it's not especially efficient (in speed or memory).  Quite cute,
though.

Cheers,
mwh

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