Simple prime number generator in Python

Question

Could someone please tell me what I\'m doing wrong with this code? It is just printing \'count\' anyway. I just want a very simple prime generator (nothing fancy).

Answer 1

If you wanted to find all the primes in a range you could do this:

def is_prime(num):
"""Returns True if the number is prime
else False."""
if num == 0 or num == 1:
    return False
for x in range(2, num):
    if num % x == 0:
        return False
else:
    return True
num = 0
itr = 0
tot = ''
while itr <= 100:
    itr = itr + 1
    num = num + 1
    if is_prime(num) == True:
        print(num)
        tot = tot + ' ' + str(num)
print(tot)

Just add while its <= and your number for the range.
OUTPUT:
2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19 23 29 31 37 41 43 47 53 59 61 67 71 73 79 83 89 97 101