Django: accessing session variables from within a template?

Question

If I set a session variable in Django, like:

request.session[\"name\"] = \"name\"

Is there a way I can access it from within a template, o

Answer 1

You can pass a request variable to a template and there use:

{{ request.session.name }}

Answer 2

Maybe a bit too late now. If you directly set TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS in settings.py, you will lose all default TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS value. Here is what I do in my settings.py:

from django.conf.global_settings import TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS as DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS

TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS + (
    'django.core.context_processors.request',
)

Answer 3

I am using Django 1.9 (March 2016) and to get {{ request.session.name}} to work, my settings have this::

TEMPLATES = [
{
    'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
    'DIRS': [],
    'APP_DIRS': True,
    'OPTIONS': {
        'context_processors': [
            'django.template.context_processors.debug',
            'django.template.context_processors.request',
            'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
            'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
            ],
        },
    },
]

The difference from the previous answers is: 'django.core.context_processors.request' became 'django.template.context_processors.request'