[SciPy-user] prime numbers

Gael Varoquaux gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org
Thu Oct 23 09:34:11 EDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0200, Walter Mudzimbabwe wrote:

> can anybody help me figure out why the following program cannot produce
> primes upto 10.

I haven't spent more the a few seconds looking at that (little time), but
my guess is:

> --------------------------------------------------
> from scipy import *

> def isdivisible(n,listt):
>    for i in range(len(listt)):
>        if (n%listt[i]==0):
>            return 1
>        else:
>            return 0

"else: ..." should be indented as the "for", not as the "if".

Gaël




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