yeah this is a standard non-django form passing a list
bruno desthuilliers wrote:
> On 2 sep, 22:47, Bobby Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> interesting situation. I've got a form
>>
>
> 'form' as a django.forms.Form instance or as a plain html form ?
>
>
>> where i can check off items to
>> manipulate in the database, each checkbox containing the recordID to
>> manipulate
>>
>> if i check one box, (recordID # 66) then the length of that value is 2
>>
>> If i check two boxes (record id # 66,67) then the length of the list
>> is 2
>>
>
>
>> What command should I be using to give me the number of elements in
>> the list. I'm currently using len(listnamehere)
>>
>
> If it's a plain html form and you get your values thru request.POST
> (or GET), remember that the http protocol is text-based, and that
> len('66') == 2.
>
> django's HttpRequest object's GET and POST are QueryDict instances.
> You may want to use POST.getlist(yourcheckboxnamehere) instead of
> POST[yourcheckboxnamehere], and if you expect integers, do the
> conversion by yourself (hint : map(int, yourlist))
>
> HTH
> >
>
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