SetPasswordForm

A form that lets a user set their password without entering the old password

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Description
new_password1	forms.CharField	Form field for the user to enter their desired new password, labeled as 'New password'.
new_password2	forms.CharField	Form field for the user to re-enter their new password for confirmation purposes, labeled as 'New password confirmation'.
user	User model instance	The user instance whose password will be updated upon successful form submission.

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Constructor

Signature

def SetPasswordForm(
    user: object,
    *args: tuple,
    **kwargs: dict
) - > null

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
user	object	The user object for whom the password is being set.
*args	tuple	Variable length argument list for the parent form class.
**kwargs	dict	Arbitrary keyword arguments for the parent form class.

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Signature

def SetPasswordForm(
    user: User object,
    *args: tuple,
    **kwargs: dict
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
user	User object	The user instance for whom the new password is being set
*args	tuple	Positional arguments passed to the parent Form class
**kwargs	dict	Keyword arguments passed to the parent Form class

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Methods

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clean()

@classmethod
def clean() - > dict

Validates that the two password fields match and ensures the new password meets the security requirements for the specific user.

Returns

Type	Description
dict	A dictionary of cleaned data after validation logic has been applied

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save()

@classmethod
def save(
    commit: boolean = True
) - > User object

Updates the user's password in the database and performs the save operation if requested.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
commit	boolean = True	Determines whether the user object should be immediately persisted to the database

Returns

Type	Description
User object	The user instance with the updated password applied

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