Fastest-in term of space- way to find prime numbers with python

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The Sieve of Eratosthenes in two lines.

primes = set(range(2,1000000))
for n in [2]+range(3,1000000/2,2): primes -= set(range(2*n,1000000,n))

Edit: I’ve realized that the above is not a true Sieve of Eratosthenes because it filters on the set of odd numbers rather than the set of primes, making it unnecessarily slow. I’ve fixed that in the following version, and also included a number of common optimizations as pointed out in the comments.

primes = set([2] + range(3, 1000000, 2))
for n in range(3, int(1000000**0.5)+1, 2): primes -= set(range(n*n,1000000,2*n) if n in primes else [])

The first version is still shorter and does generate the proper result, even if it takes longer.

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