[supernoob] Can't spot the error...

[sidon]

Noob taking the first steps with Python here, I tried the following:

# guessing game

secret = 'supernoob'
guess = ''
attempts = 0
maxtry = 3
out_of_tries = False

# logic loop
while guess != secret and not out_of_tries:
    if attempts < maxtry:
        guess = input('guess the secret: ')
        attempts =+ 1
    else:
        out_of_tries = True

# outcome
if out_of_tries:
    print('You Lose!')

else:
    print('You Win')

the software (partially) works, but it doesn't stop at maxtry value. What am I doing wrong?

[stranac]

This line is the problem:

attempts =+ 1

You're setting attempts to the same value (+1) instead of incrementing it.
What you want is:

attempts += 1

[sidon]

thanks a lot!