Oh, you're right! Silly me, I had always thought it was standard. Thanks for pointing this out! I went and downloaded ClientCookie and it works great on OS X. And since it is BSD-licensed, I can use it in my app without any fear. Perfect.
Thank you, Graham! On Jul 12, 10:28 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 13, 12:14 pm, Adrian Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, all. I'm writing an app for OS X; therefore I'd prefer to use only > > the default python install that comes with Tiger. For the moment, > > however, this means: > > > NaviOSX:~ adrianpetrescu$ python -V > > Python 2.3.5 > > > Therefore, I was not surprised to find out that cookielib did not > > exist here, since I knew that it was a 2.4+ feature. > > > However, I *was* shocked to find out that ClientCookie, which I'd > > thought was a Python 2.0+ feature, also cannot be found: > > > >>> import ClientCookie > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > > ImportError: No module named ClientCookie > > > Why would Apple go out of their way to remove this functionality from > > their shipped version of Python? More importantly, considering I need > > to programatically access a website that uses cookies for > > authentication, how can I do this in OSX's Python install? Do they > > provide some other library they'd prefer you to use? > > > I'm sure SOMEONE in the world has used cookies on Macs so I'm hoping > > there is a solution for this... > > They didn't remove it, it was never there in the first place. > > The ClientCookie site says 'Python 2.0 or above is required'. It > doesn't say it is included with Python distributions. The package > still has to be installed separately. See: > > http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/ClientCookie/ > > Graham -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
