Is there any ways to save a value from a function which runs several times?

Well, I’m a relative beginner in Python and I wanted to make a simple login function, but I ran into a problem.

def login():
    loginTries = 0
    loginName = str(input("\nPlease enter your username: "))
    loginPassword = str(input("Please enter your password: "))
    if loginName not in loginNames or loginPassword != realLoginPassword:
        print("\nOops! You typed something wrong. Try again!")
        loginTries += 1
    
    while loginTries < 4:
        login()
    else:
        register()
    return

I had planned to redirect to another (register) function after three unsuccessful attempts, but the problem is that I can’t count how many times the function has been repeated, because the values entered are reset each time it is repeated. I pictured it as shown above, but as I wrote before, it does not save the value.

>Solution :

The simplest approach is probably to create a separate function to handle attempts. You’d have to adjust your login function a bit to return the expected values, but you could do:

def handle_login():
    login_attempts = 0
    while login_attempts < 3:
        success = login()
        if success == True:
            break
        else:
            login_attempts += 1
    if success == True:
        # redirect to login
    else:
        # redirect to register