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

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Answer 1

You need to apply .decode('utf-8') to your self.password:

def set_password(self, password):
    """Set password."""
    self.password = bcrypt.generate_password_hash(password).decode('utf-8')