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Multiple Form Fields with the Same Name / Form Field Value as a List in Django

Posted by: scoopseven 13 years ago

I encountered a scenario where I have a list that I needed to pass over in a form, something like: <input type="hidden" name="ids" value="1,2,3,4,5"> I figured in my views.py, I would just loop over the items (it's a list, right) and process the ids. Instead, Django did something I found very peculiar. When I iterated over the form field: for id in request.POST['ids']:     print id printed "1" "," "2" "," etc. Not exactly what I was looking for. Instead of trying to fudge around with this, I found a much better solution where I just had 5 form fields, all named id: <input type="hidden" name="id" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="2"> <input type="hidden" name="id" value="3"> etc. Then, in my view: ids = request.POST.getlist('id') for id in ids:     print id properly printed "1" "2" "3", etc. I could see how this might be really useful dealing with checkboxes or radio buttons as well.

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