from importlib import import_module from django.conf import settings from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand class Command(BaseCommand): help = "Can be run as a cronjob or directly to clean out expired sessions (only with the database backend at the moment)." def handle(self, **options): engine = import_module(settings.SESSION_ENGINE) try: engine.SessionStore.clear_expired() except NotImplementedError: self.stderr.write("Session engine '%s' doesn't support clearing " "expired sessions.\n" % settings.SESSION_ENGINE)