Cookie Generator?

M.-A. Lemburg mal at lemburg.com
Thu Nov 16 11:41:51 EST 2000


David Lees wrote:
> 
> Is there a Cookie Generation function built into the 2.0 Python
> somewhere or available as an example?  I am looking at the on-line 2.0
> documentation and see 11.17 is titled "Cookie Objects".  But I do not
> see a function to generate unique cookies.

It shouldn't be hard to generate those. Just mix current time,
process id, a serial number and perhaps some other "chocolate
chips" in some way and then pass it through MD5. The result should
be fairly unique.

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