Thanks David, Makes sense .
On Feb 26, 9:39 am, David De La Harpe Golden <david.delaharpe.gol...@ichec.ie> wrote: > On 26/02/10 16:50, Sumanth wrote: > > > Hi , > > > I was trying to access the session key using request.session object in > > django. To do this we can use > > request.session._session_key or request.session.session_key out of > > this which is the right one to use ? > > The latter, without the leading underscore. This is really a python > question - A leading underscore '_' is a standard python naming > convention for "consider this private": > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > > The privacy is not rigidly enforced like some languages, however things > like "import *" do respect it by default. > > > But would like to know why _session_key returns None for first > > time . > > Probably because it's lazily maintained - accessing session_key > will call _get_session_key (it's property wrapped), which > will wind up setting the private _session_key - if it's not already set. > > http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property > > http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/ses... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
