posting checkbox data to views in Django

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I am absolutely baffled about this. I am using a checkbox form to get a list of items (tags) to view from the user, so that they can customize the view on their page.

data=request.POST

data has the value:

<QueryDict: {…, u'tags': [u' blue', u'hi', u'sky'], …}>

but when I try to retrieve the list of tags:

debug=data[‘tags’]

debug stores only the value

u'sky'

I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is happening, but it's totally screwing me over. Any suggestions?

Jonny Buchanan · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-16 00:35:29Z

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request.POST is a QueryDict - if you're expecting multiple values for a key, use its getlist method.:

debug = data.getlist('tags')

answered Dec 16, 2010 at 0:35

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