Twin primes are pairs of primes which differ by two. The first twin primes are {3,5}, {5,7}, {11,13} and {17,19}. You can generate prime twins in python by running a for loop and checking for primality of the numbers as you do so.
example
def is_prime(n):
for i in range(2, n):
if n % i == 0:
return False
return True
def generate_twins(start, end):
for i in range(start, end):
j = i + 2
if(is_prime(i) and is_prime(j)):
print("{:d} and {:d}".format(i, j))
generate_twins(2, 100)Output
This will give the output −
3 and 5 5 and 7 11 and 13 17 and 19 29 and 31 41 and 43 59 and 61 71 and 73