cookielib

I have a CookieJar that's being used with mechanize that I want to add a cookie to. How can I go about doing this? make_cookie() and set_cookie() weren't clear enough for me. br = mechanize.Browser() cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) Paul Managed to figure this out import mechanize import cookielib br = mechanize.Browser() cj = cookielib.LWPCookieJar() br.set_cookiejar(cj) ck = cookielib.Cookie(version=0, name='Name', value='1', port=None, port_specified=False, domain='www.example.com', domain_specified=False, domain_initial_dot=False, path='/', path_specified=True, secure

I'm trying to access an authenticated site using a cookies.txt file (generated with a Chrome extension) with Python Requests: import requests, cookielib cj = cookielib.MozillaCookieJar('cookies.txt') cj.load() r = requests.get(url, cookies=cj) It doesn't throw any error or exception, but yields the login screen, incorrectly. However, I know that my cookie file is valid, because I can successfully retrieve my content using it with wget . Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Edit: I'm tracing cookielib.MozillaCookieJar._really_load and can verify that the cookies are correctly parsed (i.e. they have