Error: “dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required” on Django 1.4

Question

I have an error message on django 1.4:

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

[EDIT]

It happe

Answer 1

I too had a similar type of problem . The solution is simple . just dont try to enter NULL or None value in values or u might have to use Something like this
dic.update([(key,value)])

Answer 2

I got this error when I was messing around with string and dictionary.

dict1 = {'taras': 'vaskiv', 'iruna': 'vaskiv'}
str1 = str(dict1)
dict(str1)
*** ValueError: dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required

So what you actually got to do to get dict from string is:

dic2 = eval(str1)
dic2
{'taras': 'vaskiv', 'iruna': 'vaskiv'}

Or in matter of security we can use literal_eval

from ast import literal_eval

Answer 3

I faced the above mentioned problem when I forgot to pass a keyword argument name to url() function.

Code with error

 url(r"^testing/$", views.testing, "testing")

Code without error

url(r"^testing/$", views.testing, name="testing")

So finally I removed the above error in this way. It might be something different in your case. So check your url patterns in urls.py.

Answer 4

Solution»

Pass a keyword argument name with value as your view name e.g home or home-view etc. to url() function.

Throws Error»

url(r'^home$', 'common.views.view1', 'home'),

Correct»

url(r'^home$', 'common.views.view1', name='home'),

Answer 5

The error should be with the params. Please verify that the params is a dictionary object. If it is just a list/tuple of arguments use only one * (*params) instead of two * (**params). This will explode the list/tuple into the proper amount of arguments.

Or, if the params is coming from some other part of code as a JSON file, please do json.loads(params), because the JSON objects sometimes behave as string and so you need to make it as a JSON using load from string (loads).

super(HStoreDictionary, self).__init__(value, **params)

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

I encountered this issue when trying to invoke the update method with a parameter of a wrong type. The expected dict was:

{'foo': True}

The one that was passed was:

{'foo': "True"}

make sure you check all the parameters you pass are of the expected type.