[Tutor] breaking the 'while' loop

[Luke Paireepinart]

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> I want to limit the number of tries to 5. To do that, I have tried the 
> /_if structure_/ along with the /_break statement_/ immediately below the
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> ‘tries += 1’ line:
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Or you could just add this condition to the while loop.
while (guess != the_number and tries < 6):
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> if tries > 5:
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> break
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> print “Wrong guess!”
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> Which still did not result in the /_while loop_/ breaking after 
> attempt No 5.
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> I would appreciate being explained what I am doing wrong.
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You should have included the source that didn't work. It does us no good 
to see working code that doesn't do what you want.