Lucky numbers in Python

Thu Apr 30 14:55:10 EDT 2015

Because I want the code to work with Python 3 also, the code is now:
 def lucky_numbers(n):
 """
 Lucky numbers from 1 up-to n
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_number
 """
 if n < 3:
 return [1]
 sieve = list(range(1, n + 1, 2))
 sieve_index = 1
 while True:
 sieve_len = len(sieve)
 if (sieve_index + 1) > sieve_len:
 break
 skip_count = sieve[sieve_index]
 if sieve_len < skip_count:
 break
 del sieve[skip_count - 1 : : skip_count]
 sieve_index += 1
 return sieve
It looks like the list in:
 sieve = list(range(1, n + 1, 2))
does not have much influence in Python 2. So I was thinking of leaving
the code like it is. Or is it better to check and do the list only
with Python 3?
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Cecil Westerhof
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