What does request.GET.get() mean?

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What does request.GET.get() mean? I see something like this in Django:

remove = request.GET.get('remove','off')

How does this work?

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11041405/why-dict-getkey-instead-of-dictkey or the doc for `dict.get` — Thierry Lathuille, Jun 07 '20 at 11:07
`request.GET` is a `QueryDict` that presents the *querystring* as a dictionary-like object. — Willem Van Onsem, Jun 07 '20 at 11:08
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.GET — jonrsharpe, Jun 07 '20 at 11:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 07 '20 at 11:20

This method is to receive data from URL string. If the url is http://example.com/login?user=myusername&password=MyStrongPassWord

Now in request.GET.get('username') returns "myusername" And request.GET.get('password') this returns "MyStrongPassWord"

Same for your method, looking at your code, "require" and "off" are two such variables. I'm not whether both would work together but you can split them into two calls.

What does request.GET.get() mean?

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