Python/ASP Docs/Questions

[Graham Breed]

In article <3A8A0A3E.A1EF40E9 at bigfoot.com>, rogersd at bigfoot.com (Dave 
Rogers) wrote:

> 2) I want to set cookies easily using Response.  I would like to go 
> Response.Cookies('name') = 'bob' (for a simple cookie), but instead I 
> am forced to go
> 
> import Cookie
> c = Cookie.Cookie()
> ...
> Response.AddHeader("Set-Cookie", c[12:])
> (or something similar to that)

Here's an example that sets a cookie iff it isn't already set.

cookieName = 'example cookie'
cookie = str(Request.Cookies(cookieName))
# needs to be converted to a string to evaluate as false
if not cookie:
  Response.Cookies[cookieName]='cookie read'
  c = Response.Cookies(cookieName)
  c.expires = pywintypes.Time(time.time()+600)

> I know Cookies is a collection - I seem to have this problem setting 
> ASP Object values in general as I have to go Session.SetValue to set 
> session variables.

Yes, it's because Python doesn't allow you to assign to the result of a 
function.

Not that it's a problem with session variables, because they're evil 
anyway.

               Graham