How to handle request.GET with multiple variables for the same parameter in Django

Question

In a Django view you can access the request.GET[\'variablename\'], so in your view you can do something like this:

myvar = request.GET[\'myvar\'         


        

Answer 1

You want the getlist() function of the GET object:

request.GET.getlist('myvar')

Answer 2

Another solution is creating a copy of the request object... Normally, you can not iterate through a request.GET or request.POST object, but you can do such operations on the copy:

res_set = request.GET.copy()
for item in res_set['myvar']:
    item
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