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Python A Social Network with Flask Making Strong Users Bcryptkeeper

Posted by Adrian Brown
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Adrian Brown
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 14,496 Points

This makes no sense

What is going on

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

def set_password(user, password):
    user.password = generate_password_hash('test')
    user = user.password
    return user

1 Answer

Peter Vann
Peter Vann
36,427 Points

2 mistakes: 1) You are passing in the parameter variable 'password', so pass that and not 'test' to generate_password_hash inside the function. 2) Omit the line "user = user.password". This passes:

from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash

def set_password(user, password):
    user.password = generate_password_hash(password)
    return user

Keep in mind, the function would then be used like this:

usr = 'Adrian'
pwd = 'test'

hashed_pwd_usr = set_password(usr, pwd)

I hope that helps. Happy coding!