Python: type of response.cookies

Question

I am using the requests module of python. In one of the post calls I am getting response cookies. I wanted to read them so I did:

if a in response.cookies:
    print "Found"

then I did : print type(response.cookies) . This gave me <class 'requests.cookies.RequestsCookieJar'>

then I did: print response.cookies . This gave me <RequestsCookieJar[<Cookie a=asdasdd for vn>]>

The type says it is of type Class. The printing of the variable gives a list and I am able to access it like a dictionary. Please explain the print response.cookies syntax.

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you think there's a contradiction here. The RequestsCookieJar class implements the dictionary interface by subclassing collections.MutableMapping , so you can access items by key.