python list seems to change with self.request.get_all(

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Below is my template code.

There is a potential collision in your reservation at <emph style="font-weight: bold">{{ location_id }}</emph>
<br /><br />
<form action="/unexpected" method="post" >
       <input type="hidden" name="location_id" value="{{ location_id }}"></input>
       <input type="hidden" name="cases" value="{{ cases|safe }}"></input>
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" 
      cellspacing="0" class="sortable" id="unique-id" align="center">
      <thead> 
<tr> 
<td>Time</td>
<td>Court</td>
<td>Currently signed up</td>
<td>You could sign up this person</td>
</tr></thead>

    <tbody>
    {% for time in times %}
<tr> 
    {% for column in time %}
    <td >
    {{ column|safe }}
    </td>
    {% endfor %}
</tr> 
{% endfor %}
    </tbody>
</table>
<div id="inputdata">

<label>Click the "Submit" button after selecting your option(s) above. Another option is to press the browser back button and then refresh/reload the page to see the current status without taking action here.
</label>
<input type="submit" value="submit" />
</div>
</form>

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I have this def post() code.

    cases=[]
    for res in tempres:
        r = TempReservations.get_or_insert(time[2],parent=res[8], day = int(res[9]))
        r.hour = res[0][0]
        r.minute = res[0][1]
        r.time = res[0][2]
        r.name = res[4]
        r.hiddenname = res[5]
        r.court_id = res[6]
        r.weekday = res[7]
        r.weekday_key = str(res[8])
        r.put()

        cases.append(r.court_id+str(r.hour)+str(r.minute))
        tt=r.court_id+str(r.hour)+str(r.minute)
        logging.info("string: %s" % tt)
        logging.info("cases: %s" % cases)
        for case in cases:
            logging.info("case: %s" % case)
    template_values = {'times':times,'cases':cases,'location_id':location_id}
    path = os.path.join(TEMPLATE_DIR, 'collisions.html')
    self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))

Which produces the following in the log.

INFO     2012-09-19 21:46:43,064 views.py:207] string: court11730
INFO     2012-09-19 21:46:43,064 views.py:208] cases: [u'court11730']
INFO     2012-09-19 21:46:43,064 views.py:210] case: court11730
INFO     2012-09-19 21:46:43,080 dev_appserver.py:2967] "POST /read/Rogers HTTP/1.1" 200 -

And the following post code gets the output of the submit button from the previous code after the user has made a change requiring the code below.

def post(self):
    location_id=self.request.get('location_id')
    cases=self.request.get_all('cases')
    for case in cases:
        logging.info("cases: %s " % cases)
        logging.info("case: %s " % case)
        logging.info("kcase: %s " % 'k'+case)
        key=str(self.request.get('k'+case))
        logging.info("key: %s " % key)

And the log produced the following for this code.

INFO     2012-09-19 21:47:47,320 views.py:678] cases: [u"[u'court11730']"] 
INFO     2012-09-19 21:47:47,320 views.py:679] case: [u'court11730'] 
INFO     2012-09-19 21:47:47,320 views.py:680] kcase: k [u'court11730']
INFO     2012-09-19 21:47:47,320 views.py:682] key:  
ERROR    2012-09-19 21:47:47,321 webapp2.py:1553] Invalid string key .
  File "/Users/brian/googleapps/scheduler/views.py", line 684, in post
    res = Reservations.get(key)

Notice how in lines 208 way above, and in line 678 just above cases has changed and now seems to be a list in a list, instead of just a list, so that now case singular is a single list instead of a string. This causes the ERROR, I think.

To clarify; `[u"[u'court11730']"]` is a list with one string element, which happens to be the string representation of the `[u'court11730']` list. This means you put the literal list into a form element; you cannot do this and expect it to work. We need to see your template code to help you fix that. — Martijn Pieters, Sep 19 '12 at 22:28
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` Notice I use jinja2's filter `safe` but even removing that did not change the result. Also what is a little different here is that in my ` — zerowords, Sep 19 '12 at 22:29

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '12 at 22:35

To pass a list as hidden elements in a form you need to create a new <input type="hidden"/> element for each item in the list:

<form action="/unexpected" method="post" >
<input type="hidden" name="location_id" value="{{ location_id }}"/>
{% for item in cases %}
  <input type="hidden" name="cases" value="{{ item }}" />
{% endfor %}

Note that <input /> elements must be empty elements (so use <../>) according to the HTML standard.

python list seems to change with self.request.get_all(

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