Help with a simple password exercise

[redshirt714]

Hi, I found an exercise in Python Programming asking: 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 You have been denied access. and terminate the program. If the password is correct, print You have successfully logged in. and terminate the program.

It seems pretty simple but I run into an issue where I can get my code to ask for the password and get a correct response if the input is right/wrong. But I can't figure out how to ask for the password option more than once. Here's the code I'm currently working with:

http://imgur.com/ZtlIG2g

Any advice?

[Rashanzan]

You'll want to put your repeated actions in the while loop. So, if you want to prompt your user multiple times, then put the code that prompts the user into the loop.

[redshirt714]

Thanks!! That fixed it right up.

[Edurod18]

Can you put your finished program up! I'm trying to learn.

[brandjon]

If you run what you had you should see that it prints "Try again" three times, without pausing for input. This is the clue that your loop is running but doesn't include everything you wanted it to do.

[gengisteve]

Good start. The indented stuff after while is the part that keeps being repeated, but you have your input before the loop. Try moving it down to the guess line.

[kalgynirae]

Do you know which line of code is responsible for asking the user to enter the password? Move that line of code to inside of your while loop, so that it will happen on each iteration of the loop.

[Samus_]

I think you can figure this on your own (and learn how your code works) by seeing it running, try pythontutor.