django MultiValueDictKeyError error, how do I deal with it

Question

I\'m trying to save a object to my database, but it\'s throwing a MultiValueDictKeyError error.

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Answer 1

Another thing to remember is that request.POST['keyword'] refers to the element identified by the specified html name attribute keyword.

So, if your form is:

<form action="/login/" method="POST">
  <input type="text" name="keyword" placeholder="Search query">
  <input type="number" name="results" placeholder="Number of results">
</form>

then, request.POST['keyword'] and request.POST['results'] will contain the value of the input elements keyword and results, respectively.