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If the goal is a script to factor integers and you need speed, look into using a specialised number theory library directly, such as FLINT, NTL or PARI/GP.

It's probably overkill to start Sage just for that.

If the goal is a script to factor integers and you need speed, look into using a specialised number theory library directly, such as FLINT, NTL or PARI/GP.

It's probably overkill to start Sage just for that.

$ python3 -c "from sympy import factorint ; print(factorint(100))"
{2: 2, 5: 2}