Why is checking if two passwords match in Django so complicated?

Question

Am I doing something wrong, or is this seriously what the developers expect me to write every time I want to check if two fields are the same?

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Answer 1

http://k0001.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/dual-password-field-with-django/

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Edit: found out the way the admin form deals with the problem: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/django/contrib/auth/forms.py

class AdminPasswordChangeForm(forms.Form):
    """
    A form used to change the password of a user in the admin interface.
    """
    password1 = forms.CharField(label=_("Password"), widget=forms.PasswordInput)
    password2 = forms.CharField(label=_("Password (again)"), widget=forms.PasswordInput)

    def __init__(self, user, *args, **kwargs):
        self.user = user
        super(AdminPasswordChangeForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

    def clean_password2(self):
        password1 = self.cleaned_data.get('password1')
        password2 = self.cleaned_data.get('password2')
        if password1 and password2:
            if password1 != password2:
                raise forms.ValidationError(_("The two password fields didn't match."))
        return password2

    def save(self, commit=True):
        """
        Saves the new password.
        """
        self.user.set_password(self.cleaned_data["password1"])
        if commit:
            self.user.save()
        return self.user