🔒 confused with while loop

[pine grail]

I am confused as to why the loop started even though I got the correct pin in this scenario. code:

attempts = 0
pin = int(input("PIN: "))        
if pin == 4321:
    print("Correct! It only took you one single attempt!")

while pin != 4321:
    pin = int(input("PIN: "))        
    if pin == 4321:
        attempts += 1
        break
    elif pin !=4321:
        attempts += 1
        print("Wrong")
print("Correct! It took you {} attempts".format(attempts))

[topaz mortar]

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[hardy cipher]

you don't really need the if pin == 4321, just the while loop and check if attempts is 0

attempts = 0
pin = int(input("PIN: "))
while pin != 4321:
    pin = int(input("PIN: "))        
    if pin == 4321:
        attempts += 1
        break
    elif pin !=4321:
        attempts += 1
        print("Wrong")
if attempts == 0:
    print("Correct! It only took you one single attempt!")
else:
    print("Correct! It took you {} attempts".format(attempts))

furthermore the elif pin != 4321 is redundant

if pin is not 4321 then it already must be unequal to 4321

attempts = 0
pin = int(input("PIN: "))
while pin != 4321:
    attempts += 1
    pin = int(input("PIN: "))
    if pin == 4321:
        break
    print("Wrong")
if attempts == 0:
    print("Correct! It only took you one single attempt!")
else:
    print("Correct! It took you {} attempts".format(attempts))

[pine grail]

oh I see thanks!

[pine grail]

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