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-rw-r--r--pyramid/authentication.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pyramid/authentication.py b/pyramid/authentication.py
index 2ee5576d9..03b204e1a 100644
--- a/pyramid/authentication.py
+++ b/pyramid/authentication.py
@@ -1098,7 +1098,7 @@ class BasicAuthAuthenticationPolicy(CallbackAuthenticationPolicy):
""" The userid parsed from the ``Authorization`` request header."""
credentials = extract_http_basic_credentials(request)
if credentials:
- return credentials[0]
+ return credentials.username
def remember(self, request, userid, **kw):
""" A no-op. Basic authentication does not provide a protocol for