With minimal code like this, I'm a little torn between declaring a class with members and using an anonymous data structure. A tree for example can be a tuple in python, and doesn't need to be declared. How big do you let it get before taking the time to declare a class?

Re: primes_sieve_of_eratosthenes.py, after doing more primes problems on Project Euler than I care to admit, I ended up with this pretty minimal sieve. The repo's indexing and .append in the loop slow it down.

    sieve = [True] * n
    for i in xrange(2,int(n**0.5)+1): 
        if sieve[i]: sieve[i*i::i] = [False] * ((n-i*i-1)/(i)+1)