Fixed issue that caused some problems when verifying hmac

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/wqflask/utility/helper_functions.py b/wqflask/utility/helper_functions.py
index 971dd3cc..e7c04fef 100644
--- a/wqflask/utility/helper_functions.py
+++ b/wqflask/utility/helper_functions.py
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ def get_trait_db_obs(self, trait_db_list):
 
     self.trait_list = []
     for trait in trait_db_list:
-        data, _separator, hmac = trait.rpartition(':')
+        data, _separator, hmac_string = trait.rpartition(':')
         data = data.strip()
-        assert hmac==hmac.hmac_creation(data), "Data tampering?"
+        assert hmac_string==hmac.hmac_creation(data), "Data tampering?"
         trait_name, dataset_name = data.split(":")
         if dataset_name == "Temp":
             dataset_ob = data_set.create_dataset(dataset_name=dataset_name, dataset_type="Temp", group_name=trait_name.split("_")[2])