Commit 00c554f8 authored by Timo Graham's avatar Timo Graham
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Fixed #13020 - add clarifying note to SessionStore. thanks elbarto for the patch.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@15053 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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@@ -307,12 +307,21 @@ Using sessions out of views
An API is available to manipulate session data outside of a view::

    >>> from django.contrib.sessions.backends.db import SessionStore
    >>> import datetime
    >>> s = SessionStore(session_key='2b1189a188b44ad18c35e113ac6ceead')
    >>> s['last_login'] = datetime.datetime(2005, 8, 20, 13, 35, 10)
    >>> s['last_login']
    datetime.datetime(2005, 8, 20, 13, 35, 0)
    >>> s.save()

If ``session_key`` isn't provided, one will be generated automatically::

    >>> from django.contrib.sessions.backends.db import SessionStore
    >>> s = SessionStore()
    >>> s.save()
    >>> s.session_key
    '2b1189a188b44ad18c35e113ac6ceead'

If you're using the ``django.contrib.sessions.backends.db`` backend, each
session is just a normal Django model. The ``Session`` model is defined in
``django/contrib/sessions/models.py``. Because it's a normal model, you can