Divisors

Exercise 4 (and Solution)

Create a program that asks the user for a number and then prints out a list of all the divisors of that number. (If you don’t know what a divisor is, it is a number that divides evenly into another number. For example, 13 is a divisor of 26 because 26 / 13 has no remainder.)

Discussion

The topics that you need for this exercise combine lists, conditionals, and user input. There is a new concept of creating lists.

There is an easy way to programmatically create lists of numbers in Python.

To create a list of numbers from 2 to 10, just use the following code:

  x = range(2, 11)

Then the variable x will contain the list [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]. Note that the second number in the range() function is not included in the original list.

Now that x is a list of numbers, the same for loop can be used with the list:

  for elem in x: 
    print elem

Will yield the result:

  2
  3
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8
  9
  10

Happy coding!

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