Thanks Jose C,I had tried/checked all of your suggestions to no avail. I have sinve posting, uninstalled Python 3.8.0 and reverted to Python 3.75 and re-run the same code and it all works as expected. I can only assume there was a problem with 3.8.0Thanks again for your help.Phil. -------- Original message --------From: Jose C <[email protected]> Date: 03/11/2019 14:43 (GMT+00:00) To: web2py-users <[email protected]> Subject: [web2py] Re: session object: can't hold session.variable In principle, that should work. However you say you're new to this so some basic scenarios to check below.1) Do you have a def second() controller where the variable is being overridden or deleted? Or session.forget() is called?2) Are you navigating to /default/first?visitor_name=phil (to cause the variable to be set in request.vars in on that page) and being redirected successfully to second? Note that if request.vars.visitor_name is not passed in the url it assigns python None to session.visitor_name, which explains why you don't see it later.3) Does your browser have cookies enabled and is accepting cookies from your dev server? The session id is stored in the cookie and if that is not being passed back, then each page hit is a new session (with balnk session variables).4) Try putting {{=response.toolbar()}} into your html pages. This generates a debug toolbar with the session and request contents in there (plus some other useful stuff)... might help troubleshoot.HTH,Jose
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