Ok, here's a better comma-delimited separator that looks for trailing and
following spaces:
submitted_tags = [x.strip() for x in str(XML(request.vars['submitted_tags'],
sanitize=True)).lower().split(',')]
On Thursday, 9 July 2015 16:32:28 UTC-7, 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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