[Web-SIG] Removal of Cookie in Python 3.0 OK?

[Brett Cannon]

On Feb 4, 2008 11:39 AM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
>
> Brett Cannon wrote:
> > On Feb 3, 2008 3:41 PM, Ian Bicking <ianb at colorstudy.com> wrote:
> >> Brett Cannon wrote:
> >>> As part of the standard library cleanup for Python 3.0, it has been
> >>> suggested to me that the Cookie module be removed. The rationale for
> >>> this is that most of the module is already deprecated and cookielib
> >>> does a better job for cookie support anyway.
> >>>
> >>> I just wanted to see if anyone here had strong objections (along with
> >>> reasons) as to why the module should be kept around in some form or
> >>> another.
> >> I think most frameworks still use the Cookie module.  The cookielib
> >> module is more oriented to the client side.  It doesn't seem to have the
> >> same parsing functions that you'd use on the server side (though maybe
> >> they are there and just not documented because they also exist in the
> >> Cookie module).
> >
> > I honestly don't know. This was just something that someone proposed
> > and I figured I would quickly look into, especially since I am trying
> > to create a single http.cookies module. But if both modules stick
> > around that might not work out very well having BaseCookie,
> > SimpleCookie, and Cookie all in the same module but doing very
> > different things.
>
> I'd actually would prefer simple parsing functions instead of the
> objects of the Cookie module.  And the only thing I really like in the
> cookie module is BaseCookie; the other classes try to be clever and just
> manage to be distracting or annoying.
>
> If as Jim suggests the existing Cookie module was made into an
> installable package we could have backward compatibility in addition to
> a cleaner stdlib going forward.  (Or we could leave cookies out of the
> stdlib, but this particular functionality doesn't bother me since it's
> fairly clear, at least now, how it should be implemented.)

I have no issue pushing Cookie out into the world on its own if that
is what this SIG agrees upon. Make my life simpler.

-Brett