Re: [Tutor] puzzling for-loop behavior

2009-06-24 Thread Yash
That helps a lot. It was stupid of me to not compare the output from the two functions. The second for loop is actually skiiping over some of the values and hence it takes longer to run when the "plst" is generated. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Luke Paireepinart wrote: > Yash wrote: >> >> Hel

Re: [Tutor] puzzling for-loop behavior

2009-06-24 Thread Luke Paireepinart
Yash wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to python. I am trying to practice writing a code in python and am trying to write a function to generate prime numbers using sieve of Eratosthenes. (code follows at the end of mail) The way it is coded, if I change the for loop over "j" from for j in range( (2*i