Django Academy · Lesson

Reading and Writing request.session

Save and retrieve values like a cart.

The Session as a Dict

Think of request.session as a dictionary that follows one visitor. You read and write keys exactly like any Python dict.

To remember something, just assign a key. Here we save a cart list so the visitor keeps their items across pages.

def add_to_cart(request):
    request.session['cart'] = [1, 2, 3]
    return redirect('cart')