Python - convert set-cookies response to dict of cookies

cookies, python, python-3.3

Solution

Use `http.cookies`:

>>> c = "cookie1=xxxyyyzzz;Path=/;Expires=Wed, 03-Feb-2015 08:03:12 GMT;Secure;HttpOnly, cookie2=abcdef;Path=/;Secure"
>>> from http.cookies import SimpleCookie
>>> cookie = SimpleCookie()
>>> cookie.load(c)
>>> cookie
<SimpleCookie: cookie1='xxxyyyzzz' cookie2='abcdef'>
>>> {key: value.value  for key, value in cookie.items()}
{'cookie1': 'xxxyyyzzz', 'cookie2': 'abcdef'}

Problem

How to convert the `response['set-cookie']` output string from `httplib2` response like ``` "cookie1=xxxyyyzzz;Path=/;Expires=Wed, 03-Feb-2015 08:03:12 GMT;Secure;HttpOnly, cookie2=abcdef;Path=/;Secure" ``` to ``` {'cookie1':'xxxyyyzzz','cookies2':'abcdef'} ```

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