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Python A Social Network with Flask Making Strong Users Bcryptkeeper

Posted by Anthony Chalabis
Anthony Chalabis
1,703 Points

Validate Password - What am I doing wrong?

Finally write a function named validate_password that takes a user and a password. It should return True if the provided password, when hashed, matches the user's password. Otherwise, return False.

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

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

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

Output: AssertionError: 'check_password_hash(user.password, password)' not found in 'from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash\n\ndef set_password(user, password):\n user = user\n password = generate_password_hash(password)\n user.password = password\n return user\n\ndef validate_password(user, password):\n if user.password == check_password_hash(password):\n return True\n else:\n return False' : Make sure to check the user's password against the password being passed into the function.

1 Answer

Anthony Chalabis
Anthony Chalabis
1,703 Points

Nevermind, I figured it out.

from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash, check_password_hash

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

def validate_password(user, password):
    if check_password_hash(user.password, password):
        return True
    else:
        return False