[Tutor] Newbie Question Again

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

>  We have only studied the While and the If statements so far.   
>  We haven't studied lists yet.

# Modify the password guessing program to keep track of 
# ...If it is more than 3 times, print "That must have 
# been complicated."

Password.py
> password = "foobar"
count = 0 # initialise to zero
> while (password != "unicorn") \
        and (count < 3):   # did you do compound expressions yet?

>     password = raw_input("Password:")

      count = count + 1  # add one each time round the loop

if count == 3: # we ran out of guesses
    print "That must have been complicated"
else: # we must have guessed it

>   print "Welcome in"

> I don't understand how to count the users input
Just increment a counter inside the loop
You effectively count the number of iterations rather 
than the number of guesses, but since we only have 
one guess per iteration thats OK...

Alan g.
Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site
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