class SessionMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
    # RemovedInDjango40Warning: when the deprecation ends, replace with:
    #   def __init__(self, get_response):
    def __init__(self, get_response=None):
        self._get_response_none_deprecation(get_response)
        self.get_response = get_response
        self._async_check()
        engine = import_module(settings.SESSION_ENGINE)
        self.SessionStore = engine.SessionStore

    def process_request(self, request):
        session_key = request.COOKIES.get(settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME)
        request.session = self.SessionStore(session_key)

    def process_response(self, request, response):
        """
        If request.session was modified, or if the configuration is to save the
        session every time, save the changes and set a session cookie or delete
        the session cookie if the session has been emptied.
        """
        try:
            accessed = request.session.accessed
            modified = request.session.modified
            empty = request.session.is_empty()
        except AttributeError:
            return response
        # First check if we need to delete this cookie.
        # The session should be deleted only if the session is entirely empty.
        if settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME in request.COOKIES and empty:
            response.delete_cookie(
                settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME,
                path=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_PATH,
                domain=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN,
                samesite=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE,
            )
            patch_vary_headers(response, ('Cookie',))
        else:
            if accessed:
                patch_vary_headers(response, ('Cookie',))
            if (modified or settings.SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST) and not empty:
                if request.session.get_expire_at_browser_close():
                    max_age = None
                    expires = None
                else:
                    max_age = request.session.get_expiry_age()
                    expires_time = time.time() + max_age
                    expires = http_date(expires_time)
                # Save the session data and refresh the client cookie.
                # Skip session save for 500 responses, refs #3881.
                if response.status_code != 500:
                    try:
                        request.session.save()
                    except UpdateError:
                        raise SuspiciousOperation(
                            "The request's session was deleted before the "
                            "request completed. The user may have logged "
                            "out in a concurrent request, for example."
                        )
                    response.set_cookie(
                        settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME,
                        request.session.session_key, max_age=max_age,
                        expires=expires, domain=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN,
                        path=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_PATH,
                        secure=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE or None,
                        httponly=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY or None,
                        samesite=settings.SESSION_COOKIE_SAMESITE,
                    )
        return response

$ python manage.py shell 
>>> from django.contrib.sessions.models import Session
>>> session = Session.objects.get(session_key='ythw5vob5dykrktggzo06oz97toqy5sd')
(0.000) SELECT "django_session"."session_key", "django_session"."session_data", "django_session"."expire_date" FROM "django_session" WHERE "django_session"."session_key" = 'ythw5vob5dykrktggzo06oz97toqy5sd' LIMIT 21; args=('ythw5vob5dykrktggzo06oz97toqy5sd',)
>>> session.get_decoded()
{'_auth_user_id': '1', '_auth_user_backend': 'django.contrib.auth.backends.ModelBackend', '_auth_user_hash': '36553afdb27dd2cf3f701668240ee8186a241a53db69a3c26b1c61323f148c77'}