Calling Cookie Values

[Victor Subervi]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>wrote:

> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:36 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com
> > <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     You've just created a cookie, but are trying to get a value without
> >     having set it first!
> >
> >
> > LOL! Rewrote code thus:
> >
> >   cookie = os.environ.get('HTTP_COOKIE')
> >   if not cookie:
> >     cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
> >     cExpires, cPath, cComment, cDomain, cMaxAge, cVersion = myCookie()
> >     cookie['lastvisit'] = str(time.time())
>
> cookie['lastvisit'] is a string.
>
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['expires'] = cExpires
>
> Here you're using the string 'expires' as an index into the
> string returned by str(time.time()).  You can only index into
> strings using integers.
>
> What do you expect the following statement to do?
>
>    '1260910829.18'['expires'] = <whatever>
>
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['path'] = cPath
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['comment'] = cComment
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['domain'] = cDomain
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['max-age'] = cMaxAge
> >     cookie['lastvisit']['version'] = cVersion
> >     cookieFlag = 'new'
> >   else:
> >     cookieFlag = 'old'
> >     print cookie['lastvisit']['expires'].value
> >
> > Got this error:
> >
> >  /var/www/html/angrynates.com/cart/cart.py
> > <http://angrynates.com/cart/cart.py>
> >   191 </html>
> >   192 '''
> >   193
> >   194 cart()
> >   195
> > cart = <function cart>
> >  /var/www/html/angrynates.com/cart/cart.py
> > <http://angrynates.com/cart/cart.py> in cart()
> >    31   else:
> >    32     cookieFlag = 'old'
> >    33     print cookie['lastvisit']['expires'].value
> >    34 #  Don't know what to do with this. It's for when client won't
> > accept cookies
> >    35 #  sessionDir = os.environ['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] + '/tmp/.session'
> > cookie = 'lastvisit=1260898013.65; lastvisit=1260898315.01', ].value
> > undefined
> >
> > TypeError: string indices must be integers
> >       args = ('string indices must be integers',)
>
> You took the string returned by str(time.time()) and tried to
> use 'expires' as an index into that time string.  You can't use
> a string to index into a string.  You can only use integers.
> That's what is mean't by the error message:
>
>    TypeError: string indices must be integers
>

Thank you.
V
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