Check for a cookie with Python Flask

Question

I would like to get a cookie (e.g. country) with this Flask call.

data = request.cookies.get("country") 

How can I tell if the cookie exists?

Answer 1

request.cookies is a dict, so:

from flask import request  if 'country' in request.cookies:     # do something else:     # do something else 

Answer 2

request.cookies.get('my_cookie') 

should have worked. If it didn't work, you may not have access to the request object when you call this line.

Try importing flask at the top

import flask 

then call

cookie = flask.request.cookies.get('my_cookie') 

If the cookies exists, it will get assigned to cookie and if not then cookie will equal None