Python program to check whether a given number is prime or not

Amansingh Javatpoint
2 min readMar 15, 2021

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Python program to check whether a given number is prime or not

A positive integer greater than 1 is called a prime number if it is divisible by one and number itself except 1.

Example: 2,3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19 are prime numbers, while 6 is not a prime number.

Source Code

The following is a source code to check whether the number is prime or not:

#Program to check a given number is prime or not

#Take input from the user

number = int(input(“Enter the number to be checked:”))

# Check number is greater than 1

if number > 1:

# Check for factors

for i in range(2, number):

if (number % i) == 0:

print(number, “is not a prime number”)

break

else:

print(number, “is a prime number”)

else:

print(number, “is not a prime number”)

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