I never said request.vars is a list.
If I have a multiple select box on a page and one entry is selected
then I get a string. If multiple entries are selected, I get a list
of strings. That's not good.
<select multiple name="things">
<option value="one">One</option>
<option value="two">Two</option>
<option value="three">Three</option>
<option value="four">Four</option>
</select>
request.vars.things could be something like "two" or like ["one",
"four"].
Which means I have to figure out ahead of time whether the user
selected one item or more than one item:
if not isinstance(request.vars.things, list):
request.vars.things = [request.vars.things]
So that I can loop naturally:
for thing in request.vars.things:
print thing
Otherwise, my loop will iterate over the string such as ['o', 'n',
'e'].
It seems that if one is not using the built-in ORM, this framework may
not be a good solution.
On Jul 16, 10:14 am, Vasile Ermicioi <[email protected]> wrote:
> request.vars is not a list, it is an object which have properties
> it is like a dict not like a list
>
> and list(request.vars) is a list of properties, not of values
>
> like dict().keys()
