password protect file

[gmsiders]

I was wondering if there was a couple of words or things i could add to the top 
of my python script to password protect it so that it asks user for the 
password and then after three tries it locks them out or says "access denied" 
and closes/ends the script but if they get it wright it proceeds on to the next 
line of the script total noob here any help appreciated
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