customer.views/create_session()

def create_session(request, username):
    request.session['username'] = username
    sql = "SELECT EMPLOYEE_ID FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE USERNAME=%s"

    cursor = connection.cursor()
    cursor.execute(sql, [username])
    result = cursor.fetchall()
    cursor.close()

    employee_id_fetched = [value[0] for value in result]
    employee_id_fetched = int(employee_id_fetched[0])

    request.session['employee_id'] = employee_id_fetched
    request.session['employee_id']
    request.session['logged_once'] = 1
    print(request.session['employee_id'])
    print(type(request.session['employee_id']))