[Zope] Cookies and dictionaries

[Andreas Jung]

use request[somekey] and *not* request.somekey
-aj

--On Freitag, 6. Februar 2004 14:01 Uhr -0600 Kashif Jabbar 
<kjabbar at ssidecisions.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to store a dictionary in a cookie which I would like to
> retrieve later and use. A test python script is as follows:
>
>##########
> request = container.REQUEST
> response =  request.RESPONSE
>
> dic = {'filter':'yes'}
> response.setCookie('myCookie', dic)
> if request.has_key('myCookie'):
>     mydic = request.myCookie
>     print mydic['filter']
>
> return printed
>###########
>
> When the script is run I get an error:
>
>> *Error Type: TypeError*
>> *Error Value: sequence index must be integer*
>
> It seems that the dictionary is returned as a string. How can I cast this
> string to a dictionary type?
>
> Thanks.
> Kashif
>
>
>
>
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