Problem checking an existing browser cookie

[Νίκος]

On 29 Αύγ, 21:44, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 29/08/2010 06:34, Νίκος wrote:
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> > On 28 Αύγ, 23:15, MRAB<pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com>  wrote:
> >> On 28/08/2010 20:37, Íßêïò wrote:
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> >>> On 22 Áýã, 10:27, Íßêïò<nikos.the.gr... at gmail.com>    wrote:
> >>>> On 16 Áýã, 14:31, Peter Otten<__pete... at web.de>    wrote:
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> >>>>> Íßêïò wrote:
> >>>>>> # initializecookie
> >>>>>> cookie=Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> >>>>>> cookie.load( os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE', '') )
> >>>>>> mycookie =cookie.get('visitor')
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> >>>>>> if ( mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos' ) or re.search( r'(cyta|
> >>>>>> yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host ) is None:
> >>>>>>       blabla...
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> >>>>>> I checked and Chrome has acookienames visitor with a value ofnikos
> >>>>>> within.
> >>>>>> So, i have to ask why the if fails?
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> >>>>> Maybe it's because != != ==
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> >>>> Iwant ti if code block to be executed only if the browsercookienames
> >>>> visitor fetched doesnt cotnain the vbalue of 'nikos'
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> >>>> Is there somethign wrong with the way i wrote it?
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> >>> 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!
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> >> Print out mycookie, repr(mycookie.value) (unless mycookie is None) and
> >> repr(host). Then follow the code yourself to see whether the condition
> >> is True.
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> > print mycookie outputs 'None'
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> > Thts weird because i check with the browser and the cookie is there!
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> Just because you can see it doesn't mean your code can.
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> > print repr(host) outputs '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr'
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> > repr(mycookie.value) (unless mycookie is None)
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> > print mycookie.value gives an error too. Maybe there is not a value
> > method?
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> If mycookie is None, then it's not surprising that doesn't have 'value'.
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> In summary, mycookie is None, so:
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>      mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos'
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> is false (actually None, which is treated as false).
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> host == '78-236-176.adsl.cyta.gr', so:
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>      re.search(r'(cyta|yandex|13448|spider|crawl)', host)
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> finds 'cyta' and the search returns a match.
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> false or false == false
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> blabla... isn't executed.

Lets forget the 2nd or argument, ill put it off

so we have this now

if ( mycookie and mycookie.value != 'nikos' ):
    #do stuff as long as there ins't a cookie names visitor with a
value of nikos in the broswer

What does it mean practically that the mycookie equals to None?
That mycookie doesnt exist?

How should i write this if block to mkake sure it checks whether or
not the cookie exists?