python - get the list of checkbox post in django views

Question

I have this code in my template:

{% for email in emails %}
  {%if email%}
     <input type="checkbox" name="email" value="{{email}}" /> {{email}}<br />
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

so the output in the template is:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
...

in my views I printed my request.POST about this.

print request.POST
print request.POST['email']
for email in request.POST['email']:
 print email

i got this output:

<QueryDict: {u'email': [u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]', u'[email protected]'], ..., u'csrfmiddlewaretoken': [u'05e5bdb542c3be7515b87e8160c347a0', u'05e5bdb542c3be7515b87e8160c347a0']}>
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my question is, how can I get the list of emails in my views? I wanted the output will be like this..

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
...

Answer 1

Use request.POST.getlist:

Returns the data with the requested key, as a Python list. Returns an empty list if the key doesn’t exist and no default value was provided. It’s guaranteed to return a list of some sort unless the default value provided is not a list.