flask-bcrypt - ValueError: Invalid salt

Question

I was finishing up a simple user login with Flask and flask-Bcrypt. However, when trying to login with a user that is stored in my database, I keep getting this error

<

Answer 1

Basically you would like to encode your data before the hash: password.encode('utf-8'). If it comes as unicode it may raise errors. Have a look here also: https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-bcrypt/issues/9