Python Cookies module? Bugs?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Benjamin Schollnick wrote:
> I'm forced to do this:
> 
> C:\>python
> 
> >>> mycookie["PSG"]["path"] = "/docushare"
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "D:\OS2\PYTHON\LIB\UserDict.py", line 14, in __getitem__
>     def __getitem__(self, key): return self.data[key]
> KeyError: PSG
> 
> 	^^^ Error ^^^^
> 
> >>> mycookie["PSG"] = "PSG Cookie"
> >>> mycookie["PSG"]["path"]="/docushare"
> >>> print mycookie
> Set-Cookie: PSG="PSG Cookie"; Path=/docushare;
> 
> Can anyone confirm that this is proper behavior for this
> module?

   But of course. It is normal to Python. Python (nont Cookie.py) saw
mycookie["PSG"] in expression mycookie["PSG"]["path"] and tryed to find the
object. But the object isn't there.
   You certainly must add an object mycookie["PSG"] before setting its
properties.

> Also, in my informal testing, when I start messing with
> Cookie Attributes (i.e. Path, etc), the cookie isn't
> being restored properly...
> 
> Anyone have any hints, and/or examples of Cookie.py use?

----- create cookie -----
#! /usr/local/bin/python -O


def set_cookie():
   import time
   t = time.gmtime(time.time())
   t = (t[0] + 10,) + t[1:] # Add 10 years!

   import Cookie
   cookie = Cookie.Cookie()

   cookie["anketa_id"] = str(1024)
   cookie["anketa_id"]["expires"] = time.strftime("%a, %d-%b-%Y %T GMT", t)
   cookie["anketa_id"]["path"] = "/"

   print cookie

try:
   print "Content-type: text/html"
   set_cookie()
   print "Location: test_c.py"

except:
   print "Error..."
----- /create cookie -----


----- test cookie -----
#! /usr/local/bin/python -O


def get_cookie():
   import os, Cookie
   cookie = Cookie.Cookie(os.environ.get("HTTP_COOKIE"))
   c = cookie.output("Cookie: ")
   if c:
      print c
   else:
      print "Cookies not found"

try:
   print "Content-type: text/html"
   print
   get_cookie()

except:
   print "Error..."
----- /test cookie -----

> Is there any "preferences" in the python world on Cookie
> Modules?  (I.e. any better/worse/etc modules)

   It s excellent module, IMHO! Just use right way...

Oleg.
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