How to compare plain text password to hashed password using bcrypt?

With py-bcrypt, you don’t need to store the salt separately: bcrypt stores the salt in the hash.

You can simply use the hash as a salt, and the salt is stored in the beginning of the hash.

>>> import bcrypt
>>> salt = bcrypt.gensalt()
>>> hashed = bcrypt.hashpw('secret', salt)
>>> hashed.find(salt)
0
>>> hashed == bcrypt.hashpw('secret', hashed)
True
>>>