You fall on an empty "name" vars... Could you have forget to pass the name
vars throught url?
Richard
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 3:14 PM, <aetagot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can someone please tell me why I am getting this error and how to fix it?
>
>
> numpatients = int(request.vars.name);
> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'> int() argument must be a string or a number,
> not 'NoneType'
>
> *db.py*
>
>
> db.define_table('post',
> Field('patient'),
> Field('attime'),
> Field('age')
> )
>
> *view.html*
>
> *index.html*
>
> <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="{{=URL('default',
> 'postform')}}" method="post">
> How many patients?: <input name="name"/> <input type="submit"/>
> </form>
>
>
>
> *postform.html*
>
> {{=BEAUTIFY(form)}}
>
>
> *controller.py*
>
>
> def postform():
> inputs = [];
> numpatients = int(request.vars.name);
> for i in range(0, numpatients):
> inputs.append(db.post.patient.clone(name='%s_%s' % (
> db.post.patient.name, i)))
> inputs.append(db.post.attime.clone(name='%s_%s' % (
> db.post.attime.name, i)))
> inputs.append(db.post.age.clone(name='%s_%s' % (db.post.age.name,
> i)))
> form = SQLFORM.factory(*inputs)
> if form.process().accepted:
> for i in range(0,numpatients):
> db.post.insert(post=form.vars['patient_%s' % i])
> db.post.insert(post=form.vars['attime_%s' % i])
> db.post.insert(post=form.vars['age_%s' % i])
> elif form.errors:
> response.flash = 'form has errors'
> return dict(form=form)
>
>
>
>
> I want to prompt the user to enter a value of how many patients to enter
> for the session, they are redirected to a page where a single form is
> displayed and there are multiple form field instances displayed based on
> the number of patients they want to enter for that session. When I click
> submit after filling the form, I keep getting that error and I don't
> understand why or how to change it because I need that value from the
> previous page to know how many form field instances to display.
>
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