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[jerome prudent]

hello,
did you try isinstance(val,str) ?


2007/3/7, Georges Racinet <gracinet at nuxeo.com>:
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Winterflood, Jonathan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm developping a product, and in one of my form processing
> > scripts, I'm having to handle a number of checkboxes with the same
> > name, say,'boxname'.
> >
> > In the context.REQUEST.form dictionary, I have this:
> > with only one box ticked, dict['boxname'] is 'value_of_the_box'
> > with multiple boxes ticked, dict['boxname'] is a list of these values
> >
> > I'm trying to change the single string to a one-element list,
> > however, I can't test the type of the value...
> > Whenever I try to use the __class__ attribute, my script won't
> > compile in Zope ( "__class__ is an invalid attribute" ...)
> > Therefore I can't test whether I have a list or a string.
> > I would use isinstance(val,list), but 'list' seems to behave as
> > though it was 'list()' inside Zope, instead of giving me <type 'list'>
>
> >
> > Both these work in a python console... I'm obviously missing
> > something, but what?
>
> Aah, restricted code :-) You can't access all attributes, and some
> other magic occurs.
> Sometimes, it's not homogeneous to current Python. I don't know about
> lists, but I do know that you can't use 'set' (appeared in
> python 2.4).
>
>
> > Is there a better way?
>
> Anyway, I think that if you explicit specify type your input  in the
> html <input name=l"ist:boxname"> then you should get a list no matter
> what.
> I'm not 100% sure, but you should give it a try.
>
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Jonathan
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