[Zope] Cookies and dictionaries

[Kashif Jabbar]

I know that cookies are just text strings but I was hoping for a high 
level function that can intelligently parse a string and cast it to a 
dictionary, list, tuple, etc. It seems eval() might be applied here but 
there are issues with using eval.

I have reevaluated my requirements and I don't really need to store this 
info in cookies and will use session variables instead where it is much 
easier to manipulate data.

I appreciate everyones help on this matter. Thank you.


Lennart Regebro wrote:

>From: "Kashif Jabbar" <kjabbar at ssidecisions.com>
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>>I am trying to store a dictionary in a cookie which I would like to
>>retrieve later and use.
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>Cookies are stored by the clients. They have no idea what a python
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>Do you really want to store it in a cookie, or do you just want to store ite
>temporarily? Because in the later case, using a session might be simpler.
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>Otherwise I maybe you can use "eval" to convert it back to a dictionary?
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