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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Loop Question
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:42:43 +0000 (UTC)
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In <e41ce3a3-c8cb-4cfc-ba86-462f40f322fc@googlegroups.com> christhecomic@gmail.com writes:

> On Sunday, June 23, 2013 6:18:35 PM UTC-5, christ...@gmail.com wrote:
> > How do I bring users back to beginning of user/password question once they
> > 
> > fail it? thx

> Can't seem to get this to cooperate...where does the while statement belong?

while True:
    username = raw_input("Please enter your username: ")
    password = raw_input("Please enter your password: ")

    if username == "john doe" and password == "fopwpo":
        print "Login Successful"
        break

    else:
        print "Please try again"

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