python-cookies 2.2.1-1 / usr / lib / python2.7 / dist-packages / cookies-2.2.1.egg-info / PKG-INFO

Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: cookies
Version: 2.2.1
Summary: Friendlier RFC 6265-compliant cookie parser/renderer
Home-page: https://github.com/sashahart/cookies
Author: Sasha Hart
Author-email: s@sashahart.net
License: UNKNOWN
Description: What is this and what is it for?
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        cookies.py is a Python module for working with HTTP cookies: parsing and
        rendering 'Cookie:' request headers and 'Set-Cookie:' response headers,
        and exposing a convenient API for creating and modifying cookies. It can be
        used as a replacement of Python's Cookie.py (aka http.cookies). 
        
        Features
        --------
        
        * Rendering according to the excellent new RFC 6265 
          (rather than using a unique ad hoc format inconsistently relating to
          unrealistic, very old RFCs which everyone ignored). Uses URL encoding to
          represent non-ASCII by default, like many other languages' libraries
        * Liberal parsing, incorporating many complaints about Cookie.py barfing
          on common cookie formats which can be reliably parsed (e.g. search 'cookie'
          on the Python issue tracker)
        * Well-documented code, with chapter and verse from RFCs
          (rather than arbitrary, undocumented decisions and huge tables of magic 
          values, as you see in Cookie.py). 
        * Test coverage at 100%, with a much more comprehensive test suite
          than Cookie.py
        * Single-source compatible with the following Python versions: 
          2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 and PyPy (2.7).
        * Cleaner, less surprising API::
        
            # old Cookie.py - this code is all directly from its docstring
            >>> from Cookie import SmartCookie
            >>> C = SmartCookie()
            >>> # n.b. it's "smart" because it automatically pickles Python objects,
            >>> # which is actually quite stupid for security reasons!
            >>> C["rocky"] = "road"
            >>> C["rocky"]["path"] = "/cookie"
            >>> # So C["rocky"] is a string, except when it's a dict...
            >>> # and why do I have to write [""] to access a fixed set of attrs?
            >>> # Look at the atrocious way I render out a request header:
            >>> C.output(attrs=[], header="Cookie:")
            'Cookie: rocky=road'
        
            # new cookies.py
            >>> from cookies import Cookies, Cookie
            >>> cookies = Cookies(rocky='road')
            >>> # Can also write explicitly: cookies['rocky'] = Cookie['road']
            >>> cookies['rocky'].path = "/cookie" 
            >>> cookies.render_request()
            'rocky=road'
        * Friendly to customization, extension, and reuse of its parts. 
          Unlike Cookie.py, it doesn't lock all implementation inside its own classes
          (forcing you to write ugly wrappers as Django, Trac, Werkzeug/Flask, web.py
          and Tornado had to do). You can suppress minor parse exceptions with
          parameters rather than subclass wrappers. You can plug in your own parsers,
          renderers and validators for new or existing cookie attributes. You can
          render the data out in a dict. You can easily use the underlying imperative
          API or even lift the parser's regexps for your own parser or project. They
          are very well documented and relate directly to RFCs, so you know exactly
          what you are getting and why. It's MIT-licensed so do
          what you want (but I'd love to know what use you are getting from it!)
        * One file, so you can just drop cookies.py into your project if you like
        * MIT license, so you can use it in whatever you want with no strings
        
        Things this is not meant to do
        ------------------------------
        While this is intended to be a good module for handling cookies, it does not
        even try to do any of the following:
        
        * Maintain backward compatibility with Cookie.py, which would mean
          inheriting its confusions and bugs
        * Implement RFCs 2109 or 2965, which have always been ignored by almost
          everyone and are now obsolete as well
        * Handle every conceivable output from terrible legacy apps, which is not
          possible to do without lots of silent data loss and corruption (the
          parser does try to be liberal as possible otherwise, though)
        * Provide a means to store pickled Python objects in cookie values
          (that's a big security hole)
        
        This doesn't compete with the cookielib (http.cookiejar) module in the Python
        standard library, which is specifically for implementing cookie storage and
        similar behavior in an HTTP client such as a browser. Things cookielib does
        that this doesn't:
        
        * Write to or read from browsers' cookie stores or other proprietary
          formats for storing cookie data in files 
        * Handle the browser/client logic like deciding which cookies to send or
          discard, etc. 
        
        If you are looking for a cookie library but neither this one nor cookielib
        will help, you might also consider the implementations in WebOb or Bottle.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Other Environment
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules