Django: accessing session variables from within a template?

Question

If I set a session variable in Django, like:

request.session[\"name\"] = \"name\"

Is there a way I can access it from within a template, o

Answer 1

I am using Django 1.9 (March 2016) and to get {{ request.session.name}} to work, my settings have this::

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

The difference from the previous answers is: 'django.core.context_processors.request' became 'django.template.context_processors.request'