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Reading cookies from most Firefox versions…

Yesterday, I wrote about how to reading the cookies from Firefox 3.0 from Python. This code snippet extends the previous example by adding code which finds the cookie file on various different operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X). Hope this helps people who need to do this.

#! /usr/bin/env python
# Reading the cookie’s from [...]

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2009 01 20 mithro Python Comments (4)

$#%#! UTF-8 in Python

This is not a post about using UTF-8 properly in Python, but doing evil, evil things.
Python dutifully respects the $LANG environment variable on the terminal. It turns out that a lot of the time this variable is totally wrong, it’s set to something like C even though the terminal is UTF-8 encoding.
The problem is [...]

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2009 01 19 mithro Python Comments (0)