On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:53 AM, ae wrote:
> I never said request.vars is a list.
>
> If I have a multiple select box on a page and one entry is selected
> then I get a string. If multiple entries are selected, I get a list
> of strings. That's not good.
>
> <select multiple name="things">
> <option value="one">One</option>
> <option value="two">Two</option>
> <option value="three">Three</option>
> <option value="four">Four</option>
> </select>
>
> request.vars.things could be something like "two" or like ["one",
> "four"].
>
> Which means I have to figure out ahead of time whether the user
> selected one item or more than one item:
>
> if not isinstance(request.vars.things, list):
> request.vars.things = [request.vars.things]
At the very least you might encapsulate this logic into a global function.
for thing in tolist(request.vars.things):
print thing
>
> So that I can loop naturally:
>
> for thing in request.vars.things:
> print thing
>
> Otherwise, my loop will iterate over the string such as ['o', 'n',
> 'e'].
>
> It seems that if one is not using the built-in ORM, this framework may
> not be a good solution.
>
>
> On Jul 16, 10:14 am, Vasile Ermicioi <elff...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> request.vars is not a list, it is an object which have properties
>> it is like a dict not like a list
>>
>> and list(request.vars) is a list of properties, not of values
>>
>> like dict().keys()
