Comments on: Get User from session key in Django

By: Jeremy Dunck

Jeremy Dunck — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:17:06 +0000

You shouldn’t assume that DB-backed sessions are used, or that the auth session item is “_auth_user_id”.

I’ve posted a snippet to show a backend-agnostic way to do this:
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1276/

By: Jj

Jj — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:42:23 +0000

Great information, it should be part of the error page and also be included in the error messages send to ADMINS on production sites.

By: omtv

omtv — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:57:39 +0000

This is quite a useful script!
I was just trying to do sth like this with swfupload. Thanks.

By: Doug Napoleone

Doug Napoleone — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:53:58 +0000

The django-command-extensions project has this as a management command ‘print_user_for_session’:

http://code.google.com/p/django-command-extensions/

By: Viktor

Viktor — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:17:00 +0000

Nice idea indeed, but actually it would be even better to have it called automatically when django shows the error page to the user. Not surprisingly this is easy to achieve by overwriting the default 500 error handler view in your urlconf.

The default says:

“handler500 = ‘django.views.defaults.server_error’“ in “django.conf.urls.defaults“

that you have imported anyway, so just write your own and be careful not to enter an endless 500 error loop. :)