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Asked: 2026-06-03T01:33:53+00:00

In Django, I’m getting some values from a select field using request.POST.getlist(‘tags’) , so

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In Django, I’m getting some values from a select field using request.POST.getlist('tags'), so when I store this information in MySQL I end up with something like this: u"['literature']". I think this is pretty reasonable and even desirable since I don’t want to use another table to store this information. Obviously, the problem comes when I try to retrieve that information because, as expected, I get this:

u'['
u'u'
u"'"
u'l'
u'i'
u't'
u'e'
.
.
.

(assuming this tag is literature, for example).

How can I transform this unicode object into a Python list?. Is there a better approach?.

Thanks in advance

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  1. Editorial Team

    Short answer: Create another table.

    Databases are designed to be used in a particular way, why try to force them to store information in a way they are not meant to?

    There are other solutions to this, but the best answer is use the database as it was intended, it will be easier in the long run.

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