Session Key Change On Login

Arif Harbott — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:05:43 +0000

If you use the request.session.session_key for an anonymous user e.g. to store shopping cart information, and then use django.contrib.auth login be aware that the session key will change. This tends to catch out new Django developers.

Session array/list append does not work

Davo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:19:52 +0000

I was trying to save and update some arrays inside the Django session object but it was not working at all…

The following snippet DOES NOT WORK

request.session['array'] = [] # let's create an empty array
# try to append some integers...
request.session['array'].append(1)
request.session['array'].append(2)
request.session['array'].append(3)
...

In order to solve this we need to store the array in a temporary object first.
Quick fix:

request.session['array'] = []
tmp = request.session['array']
tmp.append(1)
tmp.append(2)
tmp.append(3)
request.session['array'] = tmp # this works now.
...

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Session Key Change On Login

Session array/list append does not work