Session fails in python 2.6

[fredrikbonander]

Alex Martelli has a elaborate explanation @ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2652820/error-on-windows-using-session-from-appengine-utilities

Baseline is:

This fails in python 2.6

string_cookie = os.environ.get(u"HTTP_COOKIE", u"") self.cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie() self.output_cookie = Cookie.SimpleCookie() self.cookie.load(string_cookie)

In python 2.6 Cookie.py lines 624-628: if type(rawdata) == type(""): self.**ParseString(rawdata) else:

self.update() wouldn't call our custom __setitem**

for k, v in rawdata.items():

"line 624 only parses a byte string: anything else (including a unicode string!) is treated like a dict (whence the crash)."

[joerussbowman]

Appengine, at the moment, only supports Python 2.5. I'd be more than willing to accept patches that make the libraries work with 2.6, my appengine environment is currently all 2.5 and I'm unfortunately too tied up with other projects to focus on getting anything 2.6 ready when Google is still on 2.5.

Does anyone know if Google intends to go to 2.6, or will the switch straight to 3?

[joerussbowman]

There is the issue of potentially calling cookie.load with an empty string, which is incorrect. I'll see when I get this fixed.

[joerussbowman]

I fixed the issue of calling cookie_load against an empty string.