To find first N prime numbers in python

Question

I am new to the programming world. I was just writing this code in python to generate N prime numbers. User should input the value for N which is the total number of prime n

Answer 1

Here's what I eventually came up with to print the first n primes:

numprimes = raw_input('How many primes to print?  ')
count = 0
potentialprime = 2

def primetest(potentialprime):
    divisor = 2
    while divisor <= potentialprime:
        if potentialprime == 2:
            return True
        elif potentialprime % divisor == 0:
            return False
            break
        while potentialprime % divisor != 0:
            if potentialprime - divisor > 1:
                divisor += 1
            else:
                return True

while count < int(numprimes):
    if primetest(potentialprime) == True:
        print 'Prime #' + str(count + 1), 'is', potentialprime
        count += 1
        potentialprime += 1
    else:
        potentialprime += 1