Trying to make answer repeat

Question

I am trying to make a question repeat if the answer entered was incorrectly.

answer = raw_input("Please enter the capital of Canada")
Times = 0

if answer == "Ottawa":
    print "good you made " + str(Times) + " attempts"
    print "you know Canadian Geography"
else:
    Times = Times + 1
    print "Please take another Canadian Geography course."

Off-topic: As a new Python coder, I ***strongly*** suggest you read and start following the [PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). — martineau, Oct 18 '19 at 01:50

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 18 '19 at 01:35

You'll want a while loop.

Times = 0

while True:
    answer = raw_input("Please enter the capital of Canada")

    if answer == "Ottawa":
        print "good you made " + str(Times) + " attempts"
        print "you know Canadian Geography"
    else:
        Times = Times + 1
        print "Please take another Canadian Geography course."

This will create an infinite loop, so you might want some stopping criteria, like if the user answers incorrectly 10 times.

Times = 0
StopTimes = 10

while True:
    answer = raw_input("Please enter the capital of Canada")

    if answer == "Ottawa":
        print "good you made " + str(Times) + " attempts"
        print "you know Canadian Geography"
    else:
        Times = Times + 1
        print "Please take another Canadian Geography course."

    if Times > StopTimes:
        break

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '19 at 01:40

Similar to Erics answer but this loop breaks when they get it right.

Note for python3 use input instead of raw_input.

answer=raw_input("Please enter the capital of Canada:")

attempts=1
flag=True
while flag:
    if answer=="Ottawa":
        print("Good, you made %d attempts"%attempts)
        flag=False
    else:
        attempts += 1
        answer=raw_input("Please take another attempt, enter the capital of Canada:")

Trying to make answer repeat

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