1/ You should compare encrypted/hashed strings only
2/ You should use library encryption rather than hand rolling your own.
3/ You should use library functions for other things too.
Do the following in the Interactive Interpreter (etc)
import md5
print md5.md5("InsertYourPasswordHere").hexdigest()
copy the output (in this case 66e37426a7ff13e2957b2eed7c26039b, but obviously it'll be different for a different password)
Then in your user code use:
from getpass import getpass
from md5 import md5
MYPASSWORDHASH = "66e37426a7ff13e2957b2eed7c26039b" # or whatever
def get_password():
for i in range(3):
password = md5(getpass("Enter your password: "))
if password.hexdigest() == MYPASSWORDHASH:
return True
return False
def main():
if get_password():
print "Success"
# do something here
else:
print "Failure"
# do something else here
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
--OH.
[Ok, md5 is theoretically breakable... =]