FWIW, In Ian Bicking's FormEncode package there is a form variable decoder which does something similar to what you want and maybe of interest to you. To quote from the source code:
""" Takes GET/POST variable dictionary, as might be returned by ``cgi``, and turns them into lists and dictionaries. Keys (variable names) can have subkeys, with a ``.`` and can be numbered with ``-``, like ``a.b-3=something`` means that the value ``a`` is a dictionary with a key ``b``, and ``b`` is a list, the third(-ish) element with the value ``something``. Numbers are used to sort, missing numbers are ignored. """ Using these conventions, you query string would have been: myurl/? countries.visited-1=us&countries.visited-2=dk&countries.notvisited-1=be For the source, see: http://svn.colorstudy.com/FormEncode/trunk/formencode/variabledecode.py Graham On May 4, 1:43 am, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suppose the following query parameters: > myurl/?var=1&var=2&var=3 > > Running this through QueryDict correctly gives me > <MultiValueDict: {'var': ['1', '2', '3']}> > > I had hoped that multiple levels in these variables would result in a > nested dictionary, but no such luck. To illustrate the problem lets > suppose the following query: > > myurl/? > countries[visited]=us&countries[visited]=dk&countries[notvisited]=be > > It gets parsed as > <MultiValueDict: {'countries[visited]': ['us', 'dk'], > 'countries[notvisited]': ['be']}> > > yet i would have hoped: > <MultiValueDict: {'countries': {'visited': ['us', 'dk'], 'notvisited': > ['be']}}> > > I'm thinking it would be better to have QueryDict recurse through the > values instead of just parsing one level deep. Is there a way to > achieve what I want, or is this handled at themod_pythonlevel? > > Regards, > Simon --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
