Thanks, Euan!
Margie
On Jul 11, 2:00 am, "euan.godd...@googlemail.com"
<euan.godd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a standard encode/decode situation you are descibing. Django
> automatically decodes the GET string the the browser encodes. If you
> need spaces, then they wil be encoded and decoded appropriately, so
> don't worry about that.
>
> If you want to pass a list in the GET string, do:
>
> url?var=1&var=2&var=3
>
> Django will intepret this in it's multi-value dict implementation that
> QueryDict uses. So if you do:
>
> request.GET.getlist('var')
>
> you will get:
>
> ['1', '2', '3']
>
> Hope that helps, Euan
>
> On 10 July, 23:40, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a url in my app that needs to get info from a GET param. For
> > example, let's say my url is retrieving books by any of a set of
> > authors, so the url might be this to get books authored by smith,
> > johnson, or klein:
>
> >www.example.com/books/?author=smith+johnson+klein
>
> > I notice that when I look at request.GET.get('author') on the server,
> > the '+' is gone and replaced by space:
>
> > <QueryDict: {'u'author': [u'foo bar']}>
>
> > Is this django doing this for me or is this some sort of general http
> > protocal thing?
>
> > My main question is just - what's the accepted way to pass in a get
> > parameter that contains a bunch of times. What if the parameter
> > itself has spaces? I've seen this '+' used - is that standard or just
> > personal preference?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Margie
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