Fixes on merged pull requests

Author: amol-

beaker/util.py

@@ -315,8 +315,10 @@ def coerce_session_params(params):
     if cookie_expires and isinstance(cookie_expires, int) and \
        not isinstance(cookie_expires, bool):
         opts['cookie_expires'] = timedelta(seconds=cookie_expires)
-    if opts['timeout'] is not None and not opts['save_accessed_time']:
+
+    if opts.get('timeout') is not None and not opts.get('save_accessed_time', True):
         raise Exception("save_accessed_time must be true to use timeout")
+
     return opts
 
 
@@ -462,7 +464,7 @@ def dumps(self, data):
         return zlib.compress(json.dumps(data).encode('utf-8'))
 
 
-def serialize(data, serializer):
+def serialize(data, method):
     if method == 'json':
         serializer = JsonSerializer()
     else: