Setting and getting session data in Django - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to set a session variable named 'user_id' to 42.

Django

request.session[[1]] = 42

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A'session_id'

Buser_id

C'id_user'

D'user_id'

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Forgetting quotes around the session key.

Using a variable name without quotes.

Session keys must be strings, so the key 'user_id' is set as a string in brackets.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to get the session variable 'user_id' safely with a default of None.

Django

user_id = request.session.[1]('user_id', None)

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Afetch

Bget

Csetdefault

Dpop

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'pop' which removes the key.

Using 'setdefault' which sets a default if missing.

The get method retrieves a session value safely, returning None if the key does not exist.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the code to delete the session variable 'user_id'.

Django

del request.session[1]

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Auser_id

B('user_id')

C['user_id']

D.user_id

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using parentheses instead of brackets.

Using dot notation which is invalid for session keys.

To delete a session key, use del request.session['key'] with square brackets and quotes.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to check if 'user_id' exists in session and then get it.

Django

if [1] in request.session:
    user_id = request.session.[2]('user_id')

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A'user_id'

Bget

Cpop

D'session_id'

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong key names or missing quotes.

Using 'pop' which removes the key.

Check if the string key 'user_id' is in session, then use get to retrieve it.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to set a session variable 'cart' to an empty list if not present, then append 'item1'.

Django

if [1] not in request.session:
    request.session[[2]] = []
request.session[[3]].append('item1')

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A'cart'

B'items'

D'basket'

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using different keys for checking and setting.

Forgetting quotes around the key.

Use the same session key 'cart' as a string in all places to check, set, and append.