just do session.clear()
On Jun 18, 5:33 pm, Doug Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an occasion where I know that the contents of a session are > invalid, and I'd like to clear the session off the disk/db and clear > the session object of an data stored in it. Apparently > session.forget() just marks the session as being able to be cleared, > and it takes an undocumented(?) argument of the response object > currently(?) associated with the session to be cleared. What I've > tried is: > session.forget(response) > session = Session() > session.connect(request, response) > redirect(URL(r=request, f='index')) > > However this doesn't work, as it causes the Python interpreter to > think that session is now a local variable somehow(?) (I seem to be > using that a lot today!) Just issuing a session.forget followed by > the redirect, I thought would work, but the redirect hits the same > code that tests for the existence of a variable in the session, and it > cleared the session again, then redirected again looping until the > browser reached a max recursion depth. > > So how would one clear a session and allow for a redirect guaranteeing > that the variable that the redirect() call sees is clear of all > session data?
