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

Until we have N primes, take natural numbers one by one, check whether any of the so-far-collected-primes divide it.

If none does, "yay", we have a new prime...

that's it.

>>> def generate_n_primes(N):
...     primes  = []
...     chkthis = 2
...     while len(primes) < N:
...         ptest    = [chkthis for i in primes if chkthis%i == 0]
...         primes  += [] if ptest else [chkthis]
...         chkthis += 1
...     return primes
...
>>> print generate_n_primes(15)
[2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47]