Manually get a CSRF token when testing

I know this is an old question, but I stumbled across this while searching for a solution and now I wanted to share my solution in case anyone else has a problem with this.

The CSRF token is indeed stored in the cookie after you login and to access it I had to do the following:

self.client = Client(enforce_csrf_checks=True)
self.client.login(username='temporary', password='temporary')
self.client.get("/url_to_the_form/")
csrf_token = self.client.cookies['csrftoken'].value

The CSRF token should be getting sent to the client as a cookie (named "csrftoken"). The client is expected to send that cookie back with further requests. Could your Client copy the cookie to where you need it?