[Tutor] Fw: i just cant do it

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk
Mon Sep 18 09:42:26 CEST 2006


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "federico ramirez" <fedekiller at gmail.com>
To: "Alan Gauld" <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Tutor] i just cant do it


> Nope...sorry i tried what they said in that article but it didnt 
> work :(
>>_<
>
> 2006/9/17, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk>:
>>
>>
>> > Sorry, in the first code i set the cookie and then display it but 
>> > in
>> > the
>> > second i assume that the cookie is created and just want to read 
>> > it,
>> > but
>> > nothing happens
>>
>> Correct.
>> I notice Luke also sent a reply.
>>
>> Between the two replies do you understand what you now need to do
>> differently in the second case to recreate the cookie from its 
>> file?
>>
>> Alan G.
>>
>> >> > #!/usr/bin/python
>> >> >
>> >> > import Cookie
>> >> > C = Cookie.SimpleCookie()
>> >> > C['adminuser'] = 'fedekiller'
>> >> > C['adminuser']['max-age'] = 60*60*24*7
>> >> > print C
>> >> > print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
>> >> > print "Bienvenido",C['adminuser'].value,'!'
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > but when i try this it doesnt
>> >>
>> >> Can you explain why you think it should work?
>> >> What do yopu think it is doing?
>> >> The code below is very obviously completely different to
>> >> the code above, so what makes you think it should work?
>> >>
>> >> > #!/usr/bin/python
>> >> >
>> >> > import Cookie
>> >> > print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n"
>> >> > print "Bienvenido",C['adminuser'].value,'!'
>> >>
>> >> What is C? Where is it defined?
>> >>
>> >> >  i know the cookie exists because firefox display it where
>> >> > all the cookies of that domains are.
>> >>
>> >> Cookies exist as small files on your PC. A Python program
>> >> needs to be given a clue as to which cookie you are interested
>> >> in so that it can access that file. That's what the Cookie 
>> >> module
>> >> helps you to do, but it needs to be more than simply imported.
>> >> That just makes the tools available, it doesn't actually turn
>> >> them on.
>> >>
>> >> HTH,
>> >>
>> >> Alan G.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best Regards.
>> > fedekiller
>> >
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Best Regards.
> fedekiller
> 



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