Question

When I run this code in python, it is giving me a syntax error and highlighting the “l” in the line that I have pointed out. Why is it doing this?

from Euler import primeSieve,sumDig

def powerSieve(n):
    powers = []
    primes = primeSieve(100)
    for i in primes:
        j = 2
        while i ** j <= n:
            for k in primes:
                if i == k and i ** j >= 10: powers.append(i ** j)
                else:
                    l = 1
                    while l * (i ** j) <= n:
                        if l * (i ** j) >= 10: powers.append(l * (i ** j)
##THIS LINE             l *= k
            j += 1
    return sorted(set(powers))

from time import clock
start = clock()

print "Answer to PE119 = ",powerSieve(100)

elapsed = clock() - start
print elapsed * 1000,"ms"

Answer 1

You’re missing a close bracket on the line before. Change this:

if l * (i ** j) >= 10: powers.append(l * (i ** j)

To this:

if l * (i ** j) >= 10: powers.append(l * (i ** j))