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14685	contrib.sessions.models has incompatible or extraneous code	Paul McMillan	nobody	"[http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/contrib/sessions/models.py `contrib.sessions.models`] has a couple methods that seem outdated and extraneous. 

The specific problem methods are `SessionManager.encode()` and `Session.get_decoded()`. They definitely duplicate functionality (at a copy-paste level) now found elsewhere. I ''think'' these may be vestigal, but I haven't fully investigated. Someone more familiar with the sessions framework might want to take a look. 

If these are still in use somewhere, they need to be updated to match their new, higher security analogs in `contrib.sessions.backends.base`."		closed	contrib.sessions	1.2		fixed			Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0