ignore this: Re: cgi getlist() problems

[Gobo Borz]

Ignore this post.  This was the first one - it was posted from google. 
Took over 24 hours to get here. In  the mean time I posted direct.  Sorry!

Gobo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a problem with my first Python program.
> 
> I'm coding an html/cgi form that uses rows to capture multiple
> entries, for fields like "name", "phone", "department", etc.  I use
> the same "name=" for every field in the same column.   For example,
> the phone field is named "phone" in every row.
> 
> When I try to get the values with getlist(), empty values don't show
> up in the list.  Because of this, for example,  name(4) and phone(4)
> might be from different rows in the html form depending on what the
> user left blank.  Even if I force a blank with javascript on the
> client side, iterating through the list with a FOR statement still
> ignores the blank values.
> 
> Is there any way to capture these field values such that the rows stay
> in sync?  I may be missing something obvious, because It seems like
> this would be a common problem for anyone coding a multi-row html
> form.
> 
> Thanks, Gobo