Can someone explain what in

login_user (force = True)

makes

force = True 

?

I didn't find much about it on the Internet.

CodePudding user response：

There's a little note on that in the api docs:

If the user is inactive, setting this to True will log them in regardless. Defaults to False.

CodePudding user response：

When confused by the docs, if often helps to read the source. The trick for finding the source is to know to search the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/), and to navigate from a packages's page to its github (or other) repository. Here, a bit of digging will turn up

https://github.com/maxcountryman/flask-login/blob/main/flask_login/utils.py#L146

which provides the additional clue

Logs a user in. You should pass the actual user object to this. If the
user's `is_active` property is ``False``, they will not be logged in
unless `force` is ``True``.

A bit of exploration through the code shows that AnonymousUserMixin is used by LoginManager when no one is logged in, and in that case is_active will be False.