[Zope] Cookies and dictionaries
Kashif Jabbar
kjabbar at ssidecisions.com
Mon Feb 9 10:49:21 EST 2004
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
>dictionary are.
>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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