Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[Νίκος]

On 28 Αύγ, 23:07, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Νίκος wrote:
> > On 22 Αύγ, 10:27, Νίκος <nikos.the.gr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 16 Αύγ, 14:31, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> >> > Νίκος wrote:
> >> > > # initializecookie
> >> > >cookie=Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> >> > >cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> >> > > mycookie =cookie.get('visitor')
>
> >> > > if ( mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos' ) or re.search( r'(cyta|
> >> > > yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
> >> > > blabla...
> >> > > ========================
>
> >> > > I checked and Chrome has acookienames visitor with a value ofnikos
> >> > > within.
> >> > > So, i have to ask why the if fails?
>
> >> > Maybe it's because != != ==
>
> >> Iwant ti if code block to be executed only if the browsercookienames
> >> visitor fetched doesnt cotnain the vbalue of 'nikos'
>
> >> Is there somethign wrong with the way i wrote it?
>
> > Please do help me with this too becaus eif i dont solve this my
> > website keeps count my each visit like iam a guest visitor!
>
> In your initial post it sounded like you wanted the if-branch to execute for
> a user named "nikos", but now it seems that I misunderstood you and swapping
> 'mycookie.value != "nikos"' for 'mycookie.value == "nikos"' won't help.
> Maybe you could add a print statement like
>
> print mycookie.value
>
> to start with your debugging efforts.
>
> Peter

Maybe

> # initialize cookie
> cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> mycookie = cookie.get('visitor')

wont load the cookie correctly? because

print mycookie.value

outputs an error.