how to find user id from session_data from django_session table?

Question

In django_session table session_data is stored which is first pickled using pickle module of python and then encoded in base64 by using base64 modu

Answer 1

from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.utils.importlib import import_module        

def get_user_from_sid(session_key):
    django_session_engine = import_module(settings.SESSION_ENGINE)
    session = django_session_engine.SessionStore(session_key)
    uid = session.get('_auth_user_id')
    return User.objects.get(id=uid)