Perl To Python Migration

HANDLING COOKIES

In Perl the CGI::Cookie module will create a cookie HTTP header for you by supplying the cookie data, domain, and expiry date to a new cookie object. For example

my $query = new CGI;
my $cookietext = $query->cookie(-name => 'sample',
                               -value => { login =>
                                           $login,
                                           other =>
                                          'Other'
                               -path => '/',
                               -domain =>
                                   'mcwords.mchome.com',
                               -expires => '+1y');
print "Set-Cookie: $cookietext\n";

In Python there is a third party module called Cookie which will build a new cookie for you. For example, we could rewrite the above using the Cookie module like this:

 import Cookie cookie = Cookie.SmartCookie() cookie['sample'] = 'login=%s; other=Other' % (login) cookie['sample']['path'] = '/' cookie['sample']['domain'] = 'mcwords.mchome.com' cookie['sample']['expires'] ...