In Django, how can I find out the request.session sessionid and use it as a variable?

Question

I\'m aware that you can get session variables using request.session[\'variable_name\'], but there doesn\'t seem to be a way to grab the sessionid as a variable

Answer 1

In Django 1.8:

request.session.session_key

and

request.session._session_key

Both work correctly.

Answer 2

in Django >= 1.4 use:

request.session._session_key