Make a flowchart, by hand, on paper of what this program does. That should help explain the why.
Basically, after 3 attempts, your "while" loop becomes an infinte loop. Once you are over the count, the user is never prompted for another password, so the password remains not equal to "unicorn" until the end of time. Thanks, Ryan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:55 PM To: tutor@python.org Subject: [Tutor] Cell Bio Newbie Here Hey all, Sorry for the bother, thanks for the help. I'm trying to write a password guessing program to keep track of how many times the user has entered the password wrong. If it is more than 3 times, print ``That must have been complicated.'' Following is what I got. If I type "unicorn" it goes straight to "welcome in." Great. But after my third mistake, it just loops in "That must have been complicated." I'd like for someone to tell me "why" i screwed up. Not to just fix it. Thank you so much in advance. And to give you a little smile for a Monday, I've been working on this for days....argh #first of all, why does this have to be here? password="foobar" count=3 current_count=0 while password !="unicorn": if current_count<count: password=raw_input("Password:") current_count=current_count+1 else: print "That must have been complicated" print "Welcome in" Best, Gary Gary Laevsky, Ph.D. Keck Facility Manager, CenSSIS Northeastern University 302 Stearns 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 voice(617) 373 - 2589<br> fax(617) 373 - 7783<br><br> http://www.censsis.neu.edu http://www.ece.neu.edu/groups/osl http://www.keck3dfm.neu.edu _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
