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# Contact Drs. Robert W. Williams and Xiaodong Zhou (2010)
# at rwilliams@uthsc.edu and xzhou15@uthsc.edu
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# This module is used by GeneNetwork project (www.genenetwork.org)
#
# Created by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/08/10
#
# Last updated by GeneNetwork Core Team 2010/10/20

#########################################
#convert mod_python object to Dict object
#in order to be able to be pickled
#########################################

class sessionData(dict):
	'convert mod python Session object to Dict object'

	def __init__(self, mod_python_session=None):
	
		if not mod_python_session:
			mod_python_session = {}

		for key in mod_python_session.keys():
			self[key]= mod_python_session[key]
		
	
	def getvalue(self, k, default= None):
		try:
			return self[k]
		except:
			return default

	getfirst = getvalue