I saw that many people had solved this one. Must be easy. It was. I suppose the challenge would be to get it down to as fast as possible. So I employed a simple power of 2 bit-hack and go it down to 14 minutes, with the core-code down to 9 lines. I suppose I could do much better given time & energy, but hey, it works fine.
#Euler97 class Problem: def Solution(self): a = 1 << 100000 M = 1 for i in range (0,78): M *= a M = (M * (1 << 30457) * 28433) + 1 Mersenne = str(M) size = len(Mersenne) for i in range(size-10,size): print Mersenne[i], if __name__ == '__main__': P = Problem() P.Solution()