Can Comet chat be installed with OSQA?

Hello,

Ok, this is what i'm trying to do. I don't know if you're familiar with comet chat ( soft of a chat like facebook chat ), and i'm trying to install it along OSQA. I succeeded to install it on a server ( works great ) but, i can only use the chat function after user is logging in. I read their specifications on "how to" do this, but i'm sort of confused ( i'm new to Python ). Bellow is on their support page.

"If you are using another language like ASP, ColdFusion, Python etc. then set a cookie immediately after login with the user's ID. You can read that using the following function :"

function getUserID() {
        $userid = 0; // Return 0 if user is not logged in

if (!empty($_COOKIE['userid'])) {
            $userid = $_COOKIE['userid'];
        }

return $userid;
}

Ok, i know a little bit more PHP and i understand what this function does... but how can i get the current Session from python ? That's my problem... Also, they've mentioned the fallowing :

"If you are using a more complex method of authentication like storing the session_hash in the database, then your getUserID() function will look something like:"

function getUserID() {
    $userid = 0; // Return 0 if user is not logged in

    if (!empty($_COOKIE['sessionhash'])) {
    $sql = ("select userid from ".TABLE_PREFIX."session 
        where sessionhash = '".mysql_real_escape_string($_COOKIE['sessionhash'])."'");
    $query = mysql_query($sql);
    $session = mysql_fetch_array($query);
    $userid = $session['userid'];
    }

return $userid;

}

Looked around the web and did read that django uses a DB table for storing sessions ( don't know yet if OSQA is doing the same ).

Anywho, any help is much apreciated... a line of code, a link ... :)

Thanks.