How do I properly unit test a Django session?

Question

The behavior of Django sessions changes between "standard" views code and test code, making it unclear how test code is written for sessions. Googling this yields two relevant discussions about this issue:

1. Easier manipulation of sessions by test client

2. test.Client.session.save() raises error for anonymous users

I'm confused because both tickets have different ways of dealing with this problem and they were both Accepted. I assume this means they were patched and the behavior is now different. I also don't know to which versions these patches would pertain.

If I'm writing a unit test in Django 1.0, how would I set up my session store for sessions to work as they do in the browser?