Are you saying in the case of the post, it inserts two records with the 
value "test" as the tag name? Can you show the exact test code that works 
as well as showing the full code for how you submit/post the data as well 
as the exact value(s) you submit?

On Thursday, July 9, 2015 at 7:32:28 PM UTC-4, Robert Porter wrote:
>
> Program is acting like two identical lists containing only two items 
> (list/entries are same content and type) are different.
>
> The code is commented and is extremely straightforward.  If I declare 
> "submitted_tags = ['test','test'], it works fine and doesn't put in a 
> second entry, but if I take the submitted tags from my post data, (which 
> was a comma-delimited string of 'test, test'):
>
> submitted_tags = list(item for item in str(XML(request.vars[
> 'submitted_tags'],sanitize=True)).lower().split(',') if item.strip())
>
> Then it somehow doesn't find the entry in the database.  Here is the code:
>
> for i in submitted_tags: # Check each newly submitted tag.
> if i not in local_tags: # Check if it's in the current entry's local_tags 
> already.
> tag_row = db(db.approved_tags.tag_name==i).select().first() # See if it's 
> in the approved_tags.
> if tag_row != None: # If it exists already:
> Break
> else: # If not in our DB already, insert for approval.
> db.approved_tags.insert(tag_name = i)
>
> I've checked the type and content of my 'submitted_tags' from the post 
> data after it's assigned, and it is a list containing two entries, both of 
> which are strings of 'test', and I have confirmed this is the case in every 
> step of the code, it's just the DB call that's failing.  I've also 
> confirmed the DB is being properly written to by setting "i = 'test'" right 
> before the DB call.  And right before, that, I can 'print i' or 'print 
> type(i)' and it comes back as a string containing 'test'.  WTF?!
>

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