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Generating Sexy Prime Pairs using Python

Sexy Primes, What are they? They are prime numbers that differ by 6. For example, 5 & 11,  7 & 13. The name comes from the Latin word for six; sex. What we are going to do is, write a program to generate all the sexy prime pairs within a given interval of natural numbers.  Sexy Prime Pairs This is a program to generate all the sexy prime pairs below 10000. Program def check_prime(n):     for i in range(2,n//2+1):         if n%i == 0:     return False     return True def primes_list(a,b):     primes_list = []     for i in range(a,b):         if check_prime(i):     primes_list.append(i)     return (primes_list) def sexy_list(primes_list):     sexy_list = []     for i in primes_list:         for j in primes_list:     if j-i == 6:         sexy_list.append((i,j))     return(sexy_...