Python sessions framework

[Kenny Rachuonyo]

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know a good pure python session framework for storing user session information? 

I need it for an app on Google appengine without that doesn't use the inbuilt users API. I'm using a minimalist web framework, web.py, but the included session framework works with the common DBs such as mysql and postgres. I can extend it to use appengine's datastore but I would also like to try avoid hitting the DB for every session request, and you can't store data on the filesystem on appengine

I've thought of caching the session info using memcached but you lose everything  whenever it is flushed. Is this a good approach?

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[Martin Chiteri]

Hello,

You can try beaker http://beaker.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Never used it personally but have heard praises for it especially from
the WSGI lovers.

Martin.

On 1/30/13, Kenny Rachuonyo <krm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Does anyone know a good pure python session framework for storing user
> session information?
>
> I need it for an app on Google appengine without that doesn't use the
> inbuilt users API. I'm using a minimalist web framework,

> web.py<http://webpy.org/>,

> but the included session framework works with the common DBs such as mysql
> and postgres. I can extend it to use appengine's datastore but I would also
> like to try avoid hitting the DB for every session request, and you can't
> store data on the filesystem on appengine
>
> I've thought of caching the session info using memcached but you lose
> everything whenever it is flushed. Is this a good approach?
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> http://keyboardinterrupt.blogspot.com
>

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[Miano Njoka]

Hi Kenny,

You may use cookie-based sessions. Have a look at the implementation in Beaker. It has it's drawbacks, the maximum amount of data you can store in the cookie is 4096 bytes and the larger the cookie is, the slower your site becomes.

However, it's very likely that session tracking will not be the bottleneck in your app, unless it's a really trivial application. Use the most reasonable approach available to you now then profile the application to see what to optimise.

Miano.

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[Anthony Nandaa]

Stumbled on this old project - http://gaeutilities.appspot.com see if it could also shade some light just FYI.

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[Kenny Rachuonyo]

Thanks all. I'll try them all out, see what works best.

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