In particular, you want to use
request.POST.getlist('countries')
which returns the full list of values to you.
--Ned.
James Bennett wrote:
> On 3/29/07, olive <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This is the request.POST I get from a (new)form:
>> <MultiValueDict: {'application': [''], 'applicant': [''], 'step9':
>> ['Register'], 'countries': ['DE', 'ES']}>
>>
>> No I want to have the 'countries' list but request.POST[''countries']
>> gives me 'ES' instead of the entire list.
>>
>
> Because HTTP allows multiple values to be posted with the same "key",
> Django uses a specialized dictionary-like data structure to handle the
> posted values; accessing request.POST["countries"] will only return
> one value, but request.POST.getlist("countries") will return them all.
>
> This distinction can be tricky at first, but yields a nice, consistent
> API -- in most cases, you only have one value posted for a given key,
> so being able to treat it that way is extremely handy (compare to the
> other possibility, in which the values would always have to be lists
> and you'd have to manually index them to get at the common case).
>
> See here for full documentation of how these data structures work:
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/request_response/#querydict-objects
>
>
--
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com
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