or store the data in cache?

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:43 PM, cjparsons<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Session data is normally stored on disk in the "sessions" folder in
> python pickle format - only the session id is transferred over the
> network connection between the client and the server. (I say
> "normally" because there is also an option to store session data in
> the database, though this has to be enabled).
>
> If you scale your application up to more than one server you'll
> obviously have to consider how the session folder is shared between
> servers, or make sure the same session is always served by the same
> machine.
>
> On Jun 29, 8:10 am, Richard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> hello,
>>
>> I have a Python dictionary that is unique to each user and takes a
>> rather heavy database query to instantiate. Is there a way to maintain
>> the state of this dictionary between requests? For example, is saving
>> it in the session variable a good idea?
>>
>> thanks,
>> Richard
> >
>

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