I had that problem in CodeEval:

Write a program to determine the biggest prime palindrome under 1000.

And my solution passed i don’t know if they have other levels than pass but it passed anyway..

Here you are:

oddNumbers 		= [2] + range(3, 1000, 2)
primeNumbers	= []
ppNumbers 		=[]
for item in oddNumbers:
	isPrime = True
	for otherItem in oddNumbers:
		if item % otherItem == 0 and item != otherItem:
			isPrime = False
	if isPrime:
		primeNumbers.append(item)

for prime in primeNumbers:
	if prime > 100 and str(prime)[0] == str(prime)[2]:
		ppNumbers.append(prime)

print ppNumbers[-1]

I first created script to get prime numbers then i search to know what exactly a palindrome number is and i tweaked the script to solve it:)

The personal part of the post:
I -lately- figured out that family support is not only important .. it’s incomparable to any other support..

def simpleGenerator( anyList ):
	for item in anyList:
		yield item

myList = ['Ahmed', 'AlSayed', 'AbdulHameed', 'Osama', 'Gamal']

nameGenerator =  simpleGenerator( myList )

for name in myItemsList:
	print name

print myItemsList.next()
print myItemsList.next()
print myItemsList.next()

Lately I decided to give SPOJ website a try ..
And my first problem after the TEST problem was the “PRIME1” problem..
Which is basically finding the prime numbers between 2 given numbers ..

Yesterday, regardless the fact of being truly ill and I hardly could open my eyes ..
I decided to solve the problem ..

and after I think 1 hour It started to output relatively right solution ..

here is my code in python:

times = input()
while times > 0:
    times -= 1
    limits = raw_input()
    limits = limits.split(" ")
    downLimit = int(limits[0])
    upLimit = int(limits[1])
    numsList = []
    numsList = [i for i in range(downLimit,upLimit) if (i%2 or i==2) and i != 1 and i!=0]
    primesList = list(numsList)
    for oddNumber in numsList:
        primeNumber = True;
        for number in range( 2 , oddNumber / 2):
            if oddNumber % number == 0:
                primeNumber = False;
                break;

        if not primeNumber:
            primesList.remove( oddNumber )

    for primeNumber in primesList:
        print primeNumber

Notes:
1-in line 9, I used list() to assign the numsList value to the primesList list .. not the numsList as python-strangely- assigns the old list reference to the new list and that caused +1 hour of debug .. :@
2-As shown in page title after submitting the problem they replied that solution exceed the time limit .. so any help will be appreciated ..
3-Python version 2.6.2 on Mac

Al Salam 3lykom

This is me again after 5 -or more- months of silence ..

here is the digest as usual:

-Python Course is done ..great course and all course members were as cute as python… python the language
-My Acer Lap is out of service .. my LED has gone .. The PHP Course at UTC is done
>This prevented me from presenting from my lap in Hackers Duo.
>My Hackers Duo Session was “Python for PHP programmers”
>sudden foto from my session I gained some weight.
My full session

-Tadabbor work with maher .. we are doing great and I think he is satisfied working with me. special course with a nice bro. Eng.Alaa, Eslam,Ramy and Ahmed AbuHazz.

-Ramadan 22Aug, ” kol sana wenta tayeb ” has 2 meanings …

-Ahmed Nasr 3 websites are finally done in about 1 month… and a suspended Course at his home..same course above.

-I bought my Vodafone USB modem to be able to work anywhere, specially in AlTagdeef Club with Nasr..

-CAT Iftar II .. Ahmed Soliman said that I’m a reference in my career as well as being happy that we are friends .. which is really great thing specially that it was in public.. and here I’m re-announcing that Ahmed Soliman is my real teacher..

-My Laptop is fixed welcome back ya Joe and My MacBook Pro 13” is at home

-E3tkad MasJed AlSalab, lots of new friends and real friends I guess and Arch. Friends ..

-3akef.com Idea, Dr.Ahmed Saif Visited me at home, and I met dr.Hazem Shouman and updated his mobile with Bakr.

-CAT trials to motivate the community ..

-Resuming courses..Back to study..

-Crash study, thanks to swine flue.

-exams and course simultaneously

-I won’t get the full marks of the XOR problems I invented myself ..

-Al WaQfa, Nassar had a cute baby girl and they called her Hana هنا  and a meeting for:
Ahmed Abdullah, Ahmed Soliman, Kamasheto, Nassar, Ahmed Bakr, Metoo, Ayman Taher and me in AlTagdef.

-Eid AlAdHa 2nd day we met again without Abdullah but with Safwat and osama and snap and daif and then Sinar and her sisters joined us on Bahgat and Samir.

-Now, I’m thinking about mainly few things:

-Back to Quran and be more strict .. 3akef.com as a semantic, personalized web2.0 Islamic website.

-The fact that the most painful areas in my body are my head and my heart  .. except that my heart pain is always resolve to non-scientific non-deterministic problem
Specially that when I noticed that last year witnessed lots of people losses ..

-2010 plans and hopes ..
Specially that 7-12 proved it’s kind of reliable framework and I have lots and lots of ideas to improve it ..:-|

-Losing weight

-My transportation problem and the social acceptance .. buying a CAR.

يا رب وفق

ملحوظة للمتابعين ان كان في لسه متابعين .. انا بكتب جزء كبير من التقنيات والعمل التقني على الهاكرز…
egamal.n.cat-hackers.net

و السلام عليكم و رحمة الله و بركاته