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I’m new to AuthKit, and I wanted to override the method authkit.authenticate.valid_password for the form way of handling authentication. But could not figure out a good way of doing this. It appears that they only way overriding this method is to use the forward handler, but then again I had AuthKit working more or less the way I wanted using the form handler.

So how do you go about overriding one method in a library that you’re using? Well in Python you can use the wraptools module. This allows you to override a method using decorators. For example,

@replaces(authkit.authenticate.valid_password)
def valid_password(environ, username, password):
    try:
        # validate the username/password
        return True
    except YourLoginException:
        return False

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