Question

I have 2 HTML submission fields under one submit button, one of which is optional. I’m using the ‘get’ method to retrieve submitted data, but I want the optional field to have a default value just in case the user submits an empty form. If I don’t do this, I get a MultiValueDictKeyError.

if request.method == 'GET': 
        # required
        name = request.GET['name']
        # optional
        color = request.GET['color']

I think a possible solution is try / except for every field, but is there a more elegant method? I know for get.post() you can do something like

color = request.POST.get('color', False)

But this doesn’t seem to work for just request.get()

Any ideas?

Thanks,

fertileneutrino

Answer 1

Confused here… request.get() won’t work, but request.GET.get() should. Did you just mistype or were you actually using request.get()?