For flask-session 0.3.2, the documentation is here.

There are several available SESSION_TYPESs. filesystem is the most straightforward while you're testing. The expectation is you already have a Redis, database, etc. setup if you are going to use the other SESSION_TYPEs. Section on SESSION_TYPE and requirements

• null: NullSessionInterface (default)
• Redis: RedisSessionInterface
• Memcached: MemcachedSessionInterface
• filesystem: FileSystemSessionInterface
• MongoDB: MongoDBSessionInterface
• SQLAlchemy: SqlAlchemySessionInterface

Code example from the documentation. If you go to /set/ then the session['key'] is populated with the word 'value'. But if you go to /get/ first, then `session['key'] will not exist and it will return 'not set'.

from flask import Flask, session
from flask_session import Session

app = Flask(__name__)

app.config['SESSION_TYPE'] = 'filesystem'
#personal style preference compared to the first answer

Session(app)

@app.route('/set/')
def set():
    session['key'] = 'value'
    return 'ok'

@app.route('/get/')
def get():
    return session.get('key', 'not set')