In Flask convert form POST object into a representation suitable for mongodb

Question

I am using Flask and MongoDB. I am trying to convert the content of request.form into something suitable for saving via PyMongo. It seems like something that should come up

Answer 1

>>> from werkzeug.datastructures import ImmutableMultiDict
>>> so = ImmutableMultiDict([('default', u''), ('required', u'on'), ('name', u'short_text'), ('name', u'another'), ('submit', u'Submit')])

# Most earlier answers have comments suggesting so.to_dict()
# It doesn't work, duplicates are lost like in a normal dict
>>> so.to_dict()
{'default': '', 'required': 'on', 'name': 'short_text', 'submit': 'Submit'}

# The response by Vb407 is better but litters lists everywhere
>>> dso = dict(so)
{'default': [''], 'required': ['on'], 'name': ['short_text', 'another'], 'submit': ['Submit']}

# We can achieve the requested state by cleaning this up
>>> { k: dso[k][0] if len(dso[k]) <= 1 else dso[k] for k in dso }
{'default': '', 'required': 'on', 'name': ['short_text', 'another'], 'submit': 'Submit'}