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19155	New session backend instance does not respect a session_key parameter.	Andrei Antoukh	nobody	"When I create an instance of the backend session with a specified key, if this key does not exist, creates a new key without respecting the one I specifically forced.

Is appropriate behavior? In my point of view, No.
This complicates a lot to create sessions with specific keys and forces me to do ugly hacks. That's because I have to access the low level API specific backend to create them the key. (This generates backend dependent code)

I hope I have explained well.

Test cases to reproduce the bug: https://github.com/niwibe/django/compare/bug/session-key"	Bug	closed	contrib.sessions	1.4	Normal	invalid		niwi@…	Design decision needed	1	0	0	0	0	0