How to limit the number of guesses in python

I thin this is kind of what you are looking for?

while user != the_number:

   ...

   if count == 5:

       print("etc etc")

       break

else:

   print("You guessed it!!, the number is", the_number, "and it only"\

         " took you", count , "tries")

Basically if you have 5 guesses it'll break it and stop the guesses

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