README.md

Biscuits

Low level API for handling cookies server side.

Install

pip install biscuits

API

# Parse a "Cookie:" header value:
from biscuits import parse
parse('some=value; and=more')
> {'some': 'value', 'and': 'more'}

# Generate a "Set-Cookie:" header value:
from biscuits import Cookie
cookie = Cookie(name='foo', value='bar', domain='www.example.org')
str(cookie)
> "foo=bar; Domain=www.example.org; Path=/"

Building from source

pip install cython
make compile
python setup.py develop

Testing

make test

Benchmark

See Benchmark for more details.

Changelog

0.2

• unescape antislash when parsing to be consistent with quoting (cf #3)
• unescape octal ascii when parsing to be consistent with quoting (cf #4)

0.3

• add support for the SameSite attribute (cf #8)