Written by the Introduction to Python class at Noisebridge during October 23rd's class. I've refactored the our original code, so we now have one function in main running the two game functions and additional comments for each definition.

password_guess.py

#!/usr/bin/pyhton
'''
password_guess.py takes a user provided password and gives the next user
3 attempts to correctly guess the password before exiting the script.
'''


def checkpassword(guess, password):
    '''
    Verifies whether a guess is correct match to a user's password
    '''
    if guess == password:
        print "good job!"
        exit(1)
    else:
        print "password not match"


def vault(password):
    '''
    Vault records guesss attempts and passes guesses and password
    to checkpassword().
    '''
    attempt = 1
    while attempt < 4:
        guess = raw_input("Make your guess: ")
        checkpassword(guess, password)
        attempt += 1

    print "sorry too many trys..."

if __name__ == '__main__':
    print "User, enter your password por favor: "
    password = raw_input()
    vault(password)