That makes sense. Thanks for indulging me.
On Jul 7, 11:59 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> More precisely, this is how the Pyhton cgi module parses multiple
> submissions of the same variable (as a list). The reason it does not
> return a list if you select only one is because of html specs: the cgi
> module has no way of knowing it is possible to select more than one.
>
> On Jul 7, 11:56 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > This has nothing to do with web2py. This is how HTML was designed and
> > one of the reasons it sucks.
>
> > web2py FORM.accepts and validators have to just hoops to deal with
> > things like this.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Jul 7, 11:43 pm, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote:
>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="red">Red<br>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="yellow">Yellow<br>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="blue">Blue<br>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="orange">Orange<br>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="green">Green<br>
> > > <input type="checkbox" name="color" value="purple">Purple<br>
>
> > > If I check more than one item request.vars.color is a list
> > > If I check only one item request.vars.color is a string
>
> > > It's easy enough to type check it but was just curious if it is by
> > > design. It threw me off because my loop that was returning single
> > > letters when I selected only a single item :)
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