[Tutor] Looping

[Lloyd Hugh Allen]

The variable "password" is not updated inside the loop. Since password
never changes, you're stuck in an infinite loop.

You want something like

password = raw_input("Password:")
while password != "password"
               print "Wrong Password"
               password = raw_input("Password:")

"Crane, Adam" wrote:
> 
> Ok, I'm a newbie to Python, so please forgive me if this sounds stupid :)
> But I'm not really sure where to send this...
> 
> Is there a way to stop text from looping using while?  For example, if I
> used this in a program, the indented text would loop:
> 
> password = raw_input("Password:")
> while password != "password":
>                print "Wrong Password"
> 
> I still having a lot of reading to do on Python, but this is really bugging
> me.  This is probably really obvious, but any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
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