Question

Hay All, I’ve got a simple context processor which looks within a session and if a ‘user’ key exists. If it does i want to return it to the template.

Here’s my context Processor

def get_user_details(request):
    user = request.session['user']
    data = {
        'user':user
    }
    return data

and here is a sample view

def render_home(request):
    return render_to_response("home", context_instance=RequestContext(request))

If the session[‘user’] doesn’t exists, i want it to silently fail, or return False or Null.

Because the key doesnt exist within the session, i get a KeyError.

Any idea’s how to fix this?

Answer 1

You can get a default value like None this way: request.session.get('user', None). Just like in normal Python dicts.