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The algorithm is lifted straight from the standard Python documentation, presumably as a toy example to illustrate the quirky "else" clause of Python loop statements.

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Re^3: Perl vs. Python for prime numbers
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 14, 2013 at 10:23 UTC

    Ug. Those docs sum up my feelings exactly:

    (Yes, this is the correct code. Look closely: the else clause belongs to the for loop, not the if statement.)

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