Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

How it works...

The SimpleCookie class represents a cookie, as a set of one or more values.

Each value can be set into the cookie as if it was a dictionary:

cookie = SimpleCookie()
cookie['identity'] = 'USER: {}'.format(identity)

If the cookie morsel has to accept more options, those can be set with dictionary syntax too:

cookie['identity']['Path'] = '/'

Each cookie can contain multiple values and each one of them should be set with a Set-Cookie HTTP header.

Iterating over the cookie will retrieve all the key/value pairs that constitute the cookie, and then calling OutputString() on them will return the cookie value encoded as expected by the Set-Cookie header, with all the additional attributes:

for set_cookie in cookie.values(): resp.headers.add_header('Set-Cookie', ...