## find the 1000th prime, which is 7919.
## This particular answer creates a full list.
## I could easily have it print out only 7919,
## but watching the numbers accumulate is like
## watching your favorite horse at the races:
##the anticipation is the fun part, IMO. :p

## The first part is logical.
## Initialize some variables and have fun.
##At first, I was using import math and using
##int(math.sqrt(pNum)
## to create a top range number. I also externalized:

##pCount = 2
##div = int(math.sqrt(pNum))
##......
##for i in range(2,div+1):

##I had issues with this one,
##and I am sure if I wasn't sick of doing this particular problem,
##I could fix it. The issue became that I could not top out the
##counter variable to 1000.
##More specifically,
## I was getting funky answers when the
## pCount variable was set at 1000.
## Regardless, there is no need to look like a super-hero
## and use the sqrt upper-limit,
## so using pNum/2 works just as well.
## I figure it wasn't as bad as using pNum
## as the upper limit: That is just too amateur for my taste.
                                            
pCount = 2

pNum = 5
while pCount < 1000:
##    It doesn't take a genius, knowing my history with programming,
##    to figure out that I have no idea why I would want to initialize
##    "test" inside of the function opposed to outside the function.
##    Regardless, this is good to know.
##    You would be shocked to know that I figured out the
##    boolean with some hard thinking.
##    I began with externalizing "test", but that didn't work
    test = True
    for i in range(2, int(pNum/2)):
        if pNum%i == 0:
            test = False
            break

##    the idea of the assignment is to figure out "flow Control"
##    or in the words of
##    the professor "introduce you to flow control."
##    Finding out to un-nest the if
##    to prevent fall-through was an amazing find
##    and probably the entire point
##    of the project.

    if test == True:
        pCount += 1
        print pNum

##        This part probably took more time to figure out than it should have
##        (all of five minutes while picking my nose).
##        At first, i commented out this region and saw a bunch of
##        '5' going down the Shell. 


##    if pCount == 1000:
##        break
##    else:
##        pNum += 1

    ## But all hope wasn't lost:
    pNum += 1

pCount = 2
pNum = 5

while pCount < 1000:
    test = True
    for i in range(2, int(pNum/2)):
        if pNum%i == 0:
            test = False
            break

    if test == True:
        pCount += 1
        print pNum

    pNum += 1