Hey everyone, I have this small piece of code that simply finds the
factors of a number.
import sys
def factor(n):
primes = (6*i+j for i in xrange(1, n) for j in [1, 5] if (i+j)%5 !
= 0)
factors = []
for i in [2, 3, 5]:
while n % i == 0:
n /= i
factors.append(i)
for i in primes:
while n % i == 0:
n /= i
factors.append(i)
print factors
factor(int(sys.argv[1]))
My question is, is it possible to combine those two loops? The primes
generator I wrote finds all primes up to n, except for 2, 3 and 5, so
I must check those explicitly. Is there anyway to concatenate the hard
coded list of [2,3,5] and the generator I wrote so that I don't need
two for loops that do the same thing?
I tried writing a primes function using yield statements, but it
didn't work like I thought it would.
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