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 in a similar way. Is this documented anywhere? I can't find it. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Django sessions save their key in a cookie. At least its middleware extracts it like this:

from django.conf import settings
session_key = request.COOKIES[settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME]

Answer 2

request.COOKIES['sessionid']

Answer 3

Much simpler:

request.session.session_key