title: How to get started with Sessions in Google App Engine / Django?
body: <p>I'm new to Python / GAE / Django. I get that with GAE there are no in-memory sessions per se... but I think I want something equivalent. I <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/sessions/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">read</a> that Django sessions <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/appengine_helper_for_django.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">can be backed</a> by BigTable or MemCache, but I never got them working. I guess what I'm asking is "Should I..."</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Persist with getting Django sessions working?</li>
  <li>Look at some other webapp framework for sessions in particular, or the site in general?</li>
  <li>Roll my own?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>It seems to me that sessions are not supported out-of-the-box and are somehow not first class citizens. What do you do?!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>