Dave, that is the problem. I need to be able to call perform
elsewhere in the code (not necessarily from a view), and it would be
difficult to build the datadict to do that.
I like your solution, though.
For now I'm using this loop:
data = {}
for key in request.POST.keys():
data[str(key)] = str(request.POST[key])
ab.perform(**data)
which works, but it bugs me a little. I don't think I'll have that
many POST items that it will be a big deal, and I suppose any method
built into request.POST would have to do the same thing.
I like your solution, Dave. I'll give it a try.
On Oct 9, 8:16 pm, "David Durham, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > I do not understand why you want to do this. Why not just pass request.POST
> > without the **, and declare your function to take a single argument which
> > you expect to be a dictionary-like object (as request.POST, a QueryDict,
> > is)?. That is:
>
> > result = ab.perform(request.POST)
> > where:
> > def perform(self, datadict):
>
> > What could you do with 'kwargs' in your syntax that you cannot do with
> > 'datadict' in this alternative?
>
> What if he wanted to do something like:
>
> ab.perform(name='x', y=12) or whatever, but also have the option to use
> ab.perform(**a_dict) or
> ab.perform(a_dict)
>
> Can you do something like:
>
> def perform(self, datadict=None, **kwargs):
> if datadict is None:
> datadict = kwargs
> elif kwargs is not None:
> datadict.update(kwargs)
>
> I'm not sure that this would work; just kind of thinking out loud.
>
> -Dave
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