如何从给定列表创建素数列表?

How to create a list of prime numbers from a given list?

我有一个数字列表 [7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 23],我需要根据给定列表创建一个素数列表。

我写了下面的代码,但结果 9 & 15 也是素数。我没有得到我在这里缺少的东西。

a = [7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 23] 

x = []
for i in range (0, len(a)):
    num = a[i]
    for m in range (2,num):
        if (num % m)==0:
            break
        else:
            print('This is prime', num)
            x.insert(i, num)
            break

我希望输出列表 x 为 [7, 11, 13, 23]

如果 num % m != 0 并不意味着 num 是质数,则对于所有可能的 m 值都必须为真(可以通过上升到 num // 2,甚至可以减少到 sqrt(num)),为此,您可以使用 for ... else 块(else 块仅在 for 时执行正常退出,没有 break,这只发生在质数上):

a = [7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 20, 23] 

x = []
for num in a:   #   iterate with the value when you don't need the index
    for m in range(2, (num // 2) + 1):
        if num % m == 0:
            break
    else:
        print('This is prime', num)
        x.append(num)   #   use `append` to insert at the tail of the list

print(x)

输出:

This is prime 7
This is prime 11
This is prime 13
This is prime 23
[7, 11, 13, 23]