[Web-SIG] Form field dictionaries

David Fraser davidf at sjsoft.com
Wed Oct 29 09:40:42 EST 2003


Barry Warsaw wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:29, Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy wrote:
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>>I am in favor of form['fieldname'] to act the same as getfirst() only if
>>there is a single element, otherwise it should return a list.
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-2!
(That's two factorial :-)
I want form['fieldname'] to always return a single element.
You should always know when you're wanting a list.
Returning a list otherwise requires lots of exceptional-case-checking 
code that is unneccessary.
But then I'm just repeating myself...

David





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