Can't extract list from QueryDict in Django?

Question

Django 1.7 Python 2.7

I have a QueryDict object (let's name it qd):

<QueryDict: {u'org': [u''], u'songs': [u'1', u'2'], u'user': [u'222'], u'name': [u'test_name']}>

but I can't seem to get the 'songs' value.

I've tried:

qd.get('songs')
qd['songs']
qd.__getitem__('songs')

but they all return u'2' .

Why can't I get a list, it seems so trivial?

Have a look at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/request-response/#django.http.QueryDict.iterlists — Mohammad Mustaqeem, Mar 29 '16 at 10:46
^ Not exactly a duplicate, you can use `qd.getlist('songs')` to get multiple values of a key in a QueryDict. — Kedar, Mar 29 '16 at 10:46

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '16 at 10:45

8

You should use getlist to return the data as a list:

qd.getlist('songs')

answered Mar 29 '16 at 10:45

Alasdair

ty, worked like a charm. didn't even know about getlist. – Saša Kalaba Mar 29 '16 at 11:49

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