Python's safest method to store and retrieve passwords from a database

Question

Looking to store usernames and passwords in a database, and am wondering what the safest way to do so is. I know I have to use a salt somewhere, but am not sure how to gene

Answer 1

Here is a simpler way (taken from effbot), provided passwords with a length greater than 8 will not be a problem*:

import crypt

import random, string

def getsalt(chars = string.letters + string.digits):
    # generate a random 2-character 'salt'
    return random.choice(chars) + random.choice(chars)

for generate the password :

crypt.crypt("password", getsalt())

*: A password with a length greater than 8 is stripped from the right down to 8 chars long