[Fixed]-Testing a session variable

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get will do all the work for you. Check if the key exists, if not then the value is None

if request.session.get('name', None) == "dummy":
    print 'name is = dummy'
👤programmersbook

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Treat it as a Python dictionary:

if 'name' in request.session:
    print request.session['name']

How to use sessions: Django documentation: How to use sessions

👤Lars Wiegman

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Another way of doing this is put it in try.

In this the third example code snippet

if you apply del operation in a session variable it which does not exist, so it throws KeyError.

so check it like this.

try:
    print(request.session['name'])
except KeyError:
    print('name variable is not set')
👤Siraj Alam

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