Client-side cookies on Python in Mac OSX

[Adrian Petrescu]

Oh, you're right! Silly me, I had always thought it was standard.
Thanks for pointing this out! I went and downloaded ClientCookie and
it works great on OS X. And since it is BSD-licensed, I can use it in
my app without any fear. Perfect.

Thank you, Graham!

On Jul 12, 10:28 pm, Graham Dumpleton <Graham.Dumple... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Adrian Petrescu <apetr... at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi, all. I'm writing an app for OS X; therefore I'd prefer to use only
> > the default python install that comes with Tiger. For the moment,
> > however, this means:
>
> > NaviOSX:~ adrianpetrescu$ python -V
> > Python 2.3.5
>
> > Therefore, I was not surprised to find out that cookielib did not
> > exist here, since I knew that it was a 2.4+ feature.
>
> > However, I *was* shocked to find out that ClientCookie, which I'd
> > thought was a Python 2.0+ feature, also cannot be found:
>
> > >>> import ClientCookie
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > ImportError: No module named ClientCookie
>
> > Why would Apple go out of their way to remove this functionality from
> > their shipped version of Python? More importantly, considering I need
> > to programatically access a website that uses cookies for
> > authentication, how can I do this in OSX's Python install? Do they
> > provide some other library they'd prefer you to use?
>
> > I'm sure SOMEONE in the world has used cookies on Macs so I'm hoping
> > there is a solution for this...
>
> They didn't remove it, it was never there in the first place.
>
> The ClientCookie site says 'Python 2.0 or above is required'. It
> doesn't say it is included with Python distributions. The package
> still has to be installed separately. See:
>
>  http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/
>
> Graham