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Write a program that has a user guess your name, but they only get 3 chances to do so until the program quits.

name = raw_input("What's my name? ")
answer = "Jack"
attempt = 0
 
if name == answer:
        print("That's correct!")
else:
        while name != answer and attempt < 2:
                attempt = attempt + 1
                name = raw_input("That's incorrect. Please try again: ")
                if name == answer:
                        print("That's correct!")
                elif attempt == 2:
                        print("You've exceeded your number of attempts.")

Another solution that uses the sys library.

import sys
count = 0
while count < 3:
        guess = input("Guess my name: ")
 
        if guess == "joe":
                print ("Good guess!")
                sys.exit()
 
        elif count < 2:
                print ("Try again")
 
        if count == 2:
                print ("Too many wrong guesses, terminating")
 
        count = count + 1
        print()