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gae-sessions provides a fast, lightweight Sessions middleware for Google App Engine using memcache+datastore for Python. See the readme for more information about the project and how to use it.

Useful Links

• The readme explains how to install and use gae-sessions.
• See how it compares to other session libraries.
• View the documentation.
• If you have questions or need help, try posting to the gae-sessions group at [email protected] or visiting the google group webpage.

Release Notes

v0.8

• Refactored user_is_now_logged_in() to regenerate_id() and documented it in the readme.
• Fixed a regression in v0.7 which caused old session data to be deleted when changing session IDs.
• set_quick() now starts a new session if one isn’t currently active – just like __setitem__().
• Documentation strings have been improved
• Support has been added for generating documentation via sphinx.

v0.7

• Session data is now lazily loaded. If you don’t read/write it, no overhead is added.
• Expiration date handling has been improved.
  • Starting in v0.5, expiration time is in the sid, so there is no need to also store it in the session data.

v0.6

• Added clear() method to Session.
• Cleanly handle bogus cookies which specify session ID to be the empty string.
• Session data can now be retrieved manually (via session ID).

v0.5

• Resolved Issue #2 : added support for cleaning up expired sessions from the datastore.
  • Thanks to Amir Shimoni for suggesting this
• Added a demo cronjob which uses the provided cleanup function to remove expired sessions daily.
• Fix regression in v0.04 which caused the datastore to never be used (oops).

v0.4

• Added support for “quick” methods which only save changes to memcache (avoiding a datastore put).
• Added a new demo which uses Google Accounts for authentication.
• The original demo now works regardless of what port the development server is running on.

v0.3

• Cleanly handle any db.delete() failure (could occur if the datastore goes into read-only mode, etc.)
• Fixed Issue #1 : A license is now specified (Apache License v2).

v0.2

• Initial Beta Release