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Python

Code Challenge Bcryptkeeper, part 3

Link:

https://teamtreehouse.com/forum/code-challenge-bcryptkeeper-part-3

Challenge Task 3 of 3

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.

Got through the first two parts of the challenge with:

from flask.ext.bcrypt import generate_password_hash
from flask.ext.bcrypt import check_password_hash

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

Then I tried this code for the third part of the challenge:

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

..of course now it says:

Oops! It looks like Task 1 is no longer passing.

Probably some type of stupid error, but I don't know what to do to correct it..

Note: the 'Preview' button output hasn't been too helpful in giving error correction hints for this particular course.

Hey James, can i get the code challenge link to help you out?

2 Answers

I just got stuck on this task too. You have to run the check_password_hash() method with both parameters in that conditional statement.

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

Thanks for the help, but could you explain to me why you need both parameters?

To Devin, Thanks for posting.

The Challenge link is at the top of my post (just underneath the title)

To David,

Thanks!

I marked your response as "Best Answer".

No problem, James :D