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Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> Wrote in message:
> I'm still doing practice problems.  I haven't heard from the library
> on any of the books I have requested.
> 
> http://www.practicepython.org/exercise/2014/04/16/11-check-primality-functions.html
> 
> This is not a hard problem, but it got me to thinking a little.  A
> prime number will divide by one and itself.  When setting up this
> loop, if I start at 2 instead of 1, that automatically excludes one of
> the factors.  Then, by default, Python goes "to" the chosen count and
> not "through" the count, so just the syntax causes Python to rule out
> the other factor (the number itself).
> 
> So this works:
> while True:
>     a=random.randrange(1,8)
>     print (a)
>     for x in range(2,a):
>         if a%x==0:
>             print ("Number is not prime")
>             break
>     wait = input (" "*40  + "Wait")
> 
> But, what this instructions want printed is "This is a prime number"
> So how to I use this code logic NOT print (not prime) and have the
> logic print "This number is prime"
> 
> 

The traditional way of telling whether something happened in a
 loop is to set a flag to False outside the loop,  and
 conditionally set it to True in the if test. Then after the loop,
 check your flag.

Python however has a better way. You can put an else clause on the
 for loop:


 for x in range(2,a):
        if a%x==0:
           print ("Number is not prime")
           break
  else:
        print ("Number is prime")

The else clause fires if no break executed. 

There are also ways to do it using not, any, and a list
 comprehension, no explicit loop at all.

-- 
DaveA

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My backwards logic Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-05 12:48 -0400
  Re: My backwards logic MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-05 17:57 +0100
  Re: My backwards logic Bob Gailer <bgailer@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 13:04 -0400
  Re: My backwards logic John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-09-05 17:08 +0000
  Re: My backwards logic Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-09-05 10:08 -0700
    Re: My backwards logic Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-05 13:44 -0400
      Re: My backwards logic Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-09-05 11:17 -0700
      Re: My backwards logic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 15:04 -0600
      Re: My backwards logic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 09:44 +1000
  Re: My backwards logic Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-09-05 10:09 -0700
  Re:My backwards logic Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-09-05 13:15 -0400
  Re: My backwards logic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 11:17 -0600
  Re: My backwards logic Juan Christian <juan0christian@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 14:35 -0300
  Re: My backwards logic Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-09-05 11:41 -0700
  Re: My backwards logic MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2014-09-05 19:48 +0100
  Re: My backwards logic Juan Christian <juan0christian@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 16:34 -0300
    Re: My backwards logic Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2014-09-05 13:07 -0700
      Re: My backwards logic Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 18:24 -0700
  Re: My backwards logic Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-05 20:54 +0100
  Re: My backwards logic Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-05 17:49 -0400
    Re: My backwards logic Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2014-09-05 15:14 -0700
      Re: My backwards logic Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-05 18:36 -0400
    Re: My backwards logic Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 16:35 -0600
      Re: My backwards logic Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head@Hotmail.invalid> - 2014-09-05 19:05 -0400
    Re: My backwards logic Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-09-05 23:10 -0400
  Re: My backwards logic Juan Christian <juan0christian@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 22:54 -0300
    Re: My backwards logic Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 18:58 -0700
  Posting style: interleaved responses (was: My backwards logic) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-09-06 12:37 +1000
  Re: Posting style: interleaved responses (was: My backwards logic) Juan Christian <juan0christian@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 00:06 -0300
  Re: Posting style: interleaved responses (was: My backwards logic) Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-09-05 23:04 -0500
  Re: My backwards logic Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-06 08:45 +0100
  Re: My backwards logic Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 07:49 +0000
    Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-06 20:38 +1000
      Re: Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-06 20:42 +1000
      Re: Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Manolo Martínez <manolo@austrohungaro.com> - 2014-09-06 12:53 +0200
        Re: Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-09-07 18:53 +0000
          Re: Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Manolo Martínez <manolo@austrohungaro.com> - 2014-09-07 21:09 +0200
          Re: Prime testing [was Re: My backwards logic] Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-09-07 20:23 -0700
  Re: Posting style: interleaved responses Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-09-06 08:46 +0100

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