I am trying to improve the performance of this password cracking method:def search_method_2(num_pass_wheels):    global totalguesses    result = False    starttime = time.time()    tests = 0    still_searching = True    print(Using method 2 and searching with +str(num_pass_wheels)+ password wheels.)    wheel =  ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789    # we only allow up to 8 wheels for each password for now    if (num_pass_wheels > 8):        print(Unable to handle the request. No more than 8 characters for a password)        still_searching = False    # set all of the wheels to the first position    pass_wheel_array=array('i',[1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0])    while still_searching:        ourguess_pass =         for i in range(0,num_pass_wheels):  # once for each wheel            if pass_wheel_array[i] > 0:                ourguess_pass = wheel[pass_wheel_array[i]] + ourguess_pass        #print (trying [+ourguess_pass+])        if (check_userpass(which_password, ourguess_pass)):            print (Success! Password  +str(which_password)+ is  + ourguess_pass)            still_searching = False   # we can stop now - we found it!            result = True        #else:            #print (Darn.  + ourguess +  is NOT the password.)        tests = tests + 1        totalguesses = totalguesses + 1        carry = 1        for i in range(0,num_pass_wheels): # once for each wheel            pass_wheel_array[i] = pass_wheel_array[i] + carry            carry = 0            if pass_wheel_array[i] > 62:                pass_wheel_array[i] = 1                carry = 1                if i == (num_pass_wheels-1):                    still_searching = False    seconds = time.time()-starttime    report_search_time(tests, seconds)    return resultThis is a modified version of the Science Buddies password cracker (found here: http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/CompSci_p046.shtml#materialsYou can see the full file here if you would like to: https://files.fm/u/bg9ppx77Basically, I need a way to run this method faster, I can currently do about 200,000 tests (or runs of this method) per second. I would like to double or triple that number so that I can crack longer passwords in a reasonable period of time.If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great, if anyone has any code ideas that would be amazing.
Science Buddies derived password cracker
python;performance;python 3.x