On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I don't see what's particularly un-Pythonic with this code. Not using xrange() > is a mistake, certainly, but it remains clear, easily understandable code > which correctly demonstrates the naive algorithm for detecting whether n is a > prime. It doesn't call for condescension
It's not that the code is bad, but too many people coming from Java and C keep thinking of for loops like they're using Java or C and therefore that "for i in range(a,b)" is identical to "for(int i = a; i < b; i++)". It's not and, for the most part, you shouldn't code like that. Since you're using numbers, range/xrange is the appropriate idiom but you still have to remember that a for loop in python doesn't loop until a condition is met, it loops through an iterator until the interator says it's done. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
