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Python Build a Social Network with Flask Making Strong Users Bcryptkeeper

Shawndee Boyd
Shawndee Boyd
6,002 Points

Finally write a function named validate_password that takes a user and a password. It should return True if the provided

I think that I have it logically but it says that Task 1 is not passing now. I would truly appreciate help! Thank you.

utils.py
from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash

def set_password(User, a_string):
    User.password = generate_password_hash('a_string')
    return User

def validate_password(User, a_string):
    if check_password_hash(User.password, a_string) == True
        return True
    else:
        return False

3 Answers

FIrst up, I think you're missing a colon : after the if statement... you'll need that. You don't need the == True though, since the check_password_hash method will return a boolean (True/False) anyways.

Oh and for the call to the generate_password_hash method in your set_password function, you're passing in an explicit string with the text a_string, rather than the value of the parameter passed into the set_password function... You should remove the single quotes from that.

did it work?

=)

Shawndee Boyd
Shawndee Boyd
6,002 Points

Thanks, Iain! That worked!!

No problem! :)