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[Alan Gauld]

>  As the book goes on it also talks about elif, and while
>  loops.  ...
>  that the user gets only three attempts to enter the correct

>  password = raw input("Enter your Password: ")
>  count = 0
>
>  while password != "secret":
>       print password = raw-input("Enter your Password: ")
>       count += 1

The while loop will repeat *the indented block* until the
condition is false. You are only repeating these 2 lines!

However there is another problem further down:

>  if password == "secret":
>       print "Welcome in."
>  elif count > 3:
>       print "Please come back when you remember your Password."
>  else:
>       raw input("Press enter to exit.")

Even if you move these into the loop you are not exiting the loop
after 3 times you only print a message. So your loop test needs
to check for two conditions:
1) The password is not "secret"
2) count is less than 3

Finally think about the value of count. You start it at 0
but test for "count > 3" - how many loops will it take for
count to be greater than 3?

Given that information try modifying your program and see how you get
on.

Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web tutor
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