>>> def popcount(n): return bin(n).count("1") ... >>> [popcount(3**i) for i in range(30)] [1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 6, 6, 5, 6, 8, 9, 13, 10, 11, 14, 15, 11, 14, 14, 17, 17, 20, 19, 22, 16, 18, 24, 30, 25, 25] >>> evil, odious, i = [], [], 0 >>> while len(evil) < 30 or len(odious) < 30: ... p = popcount(i) ... if p % 2: odious.append(i) ... else: evil.append(i) ... i += 1 ... >>> evil[:30] [0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33, 34, 36, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 48, 51, 53, 54, 57, 58] >>> odious[:30] [1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 35, 37, 38, 41, 42, 44, 47, 49, 50, 52, 55, 56, 59] >>>