FW: [Tutor] while loops,password

[Rob]

-----Original Message-----
From: thomi@thomi.imail.net.nz [mailto:thomi@thomi.imail.net.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 7:15 AM
To: Rob
Subject: Re: [Tutor] while loops,password


On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 07:08:28AM -0500, Rob wrote:

umm..

> password = "foobar"

what is this bit for?? seems to do nothing to me :-) also.. (scroll
down)

> a=0
> 
> while password != "unicorn":
>     print "You've guessed",a,"times."
>     password = raw_input("Password?:")
>     a=a+1
> 
>     if password=="unicorn":
>         print "Welcome in, you took ", a, "attempts."
> 
>     #I added
>     elif a>3:
>         break
> 
> The *break* breaks out of the while loop.
>

surely you want it to break if you got the answer right aswell?? the way
i see it, and this is probably wrong, it should go something like this:

password='hithere23'
tries=0
instring = ''

while instring != password:
	print 'You've guessed %d times!' % (tries)
	instring = raw_input('Password: ')
	tries=tries+1

	if instring == password:
		print 'Welcome! you took %d tries!' % (tries)
		break
	elif tries > 3:
		print 'maximum number of tries exceeded!'
		break

so yeah, what do you think?? does that look better?? i dunno....hmmmmm

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Thomi Richards,
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