Django equivalent of PHP's form value array/associative array

Question

In PHP, I would do this to get name as an array.

Answer 1

Sorry for digging this up, but Django has an utils.datastructures.DotExpandedDict. Here's a piece of it's docs:

>>> d = DotExpandedDict({'person.1.firstname': ['Simon'], \
        'person.1.lastname': ['Willison'], \
        'person.2.firstname': ['Adrian'], \
        'person.2.lastname': ['Holovaty']})
>>> d
{'person': {'1': {'lastname': ['Willison'], 'firstname': ['Simon']}, '2': {'lastname': ['Holovaty'], 'firstname': ['Adrian']}}}

The only difference being you use dot's instead of brackets.

EDIT: This mechanism was replaced by form prefixes, but here's the old code you can drop in your app if you still want to use this concept: https://gist.github.com/grzes/73142ed99dc8ad6ac4fc9fb9f4e87d60