In Django, how can I find out the request.session sessionid and use it as a variable?

Question

I\'m aware that you can get session variables using request.session[\'variable_name\'], but there doesn\'t seem to be a way to grab the sessionid as a variable

Answer 1

Django sessions save their key in a cookie. At least its middleware extracts it like this:

from django.conf import settings
session_key = request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME]