Getting empty form fields with Python cgi stdlib

Question

I am passing multiple form fields which are optional, but which need to be associated with a user. Python\'s cgi.FormDict and cgi.FieldStorage both eliminate blank entries, so i

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you can tweak cgi.FromDict to do what you want, but maybe a solution would be to make every input set uniqe like so:

Note thate MailingList1 and Mailinglist2 now hafe a suffix for the "entry block".

You will have to add this at generation time of you Form and then adapt your processing accordingly by reading the checkboxes like so:

lv_key = 'MailingList1_' + str(i)
MailingList1 = myFormDict[lv_key]
...

Regards,

Martin