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Kirill Smelkov
cpython
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Serhiy Storchaka
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Issue #19198: Improved cross-references in the cgi module documentation.
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@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ standard input, it should be instantiated only once.
The :class:`FieldStorage` instance can be indexed like a Python dictionary.
It allows membership testing with the :keyword:`in` operator, and also supports
the standard dictionary method :meth:`keys` and the built-in function
the standard dictionary method :meth:`
~dict.
keys` and the built-in function
:func:`len`. Form fields containing empty strings are ignored and do not appear
in the dictionary; to keep such values, provide a true value for the optional
*keep_blank_values* keyword parameter when creating the :class:`FieldStorage`
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@@ -119,30 +119,32 @@ string::
Here the fields, accessed through ``form[key]``, are themselves instances of
:class:`FieldStorage` (or :class:`MiniFieldStorage`, depending on the form
encoding). The :attr:`
value` attribute of the instance yields the string value
of the field. The :meth:`getvalue` method returns this string value directly;
it also accepts an optional second argument as a default to return if the
requested key is not present.
encoding). The :attr:`
~FieldStorage.value` attribute of the instance yields
the string value of the field. The :meth:`~FieldStorage.getvalue` method
returns this string value directly; it also accepts an optional second argument
as a default to return if the
requested key is not present.
If the submitted form data contains more than one field with the same name, the
object retrieved by ``form[key]`` is not a :class:`FieldStorage` or
:class:`MiniFieldStorage` instance but a list of such instances. Similarly, in
this situation, ``form.getvalue(key)`` would return a list of strings. If you
expect this possibility (when your HTML form contains multiple fields with the
same name), use the :
func:`getlist` function, which always returns a list of
values (so that you do not need to special-case the single item case). For
example, this code concatenates any number of username fields, separated by
commas::
same name), use the :
meth:`~FieldStorage.getlist` method, which always returns
a list of values (so that you do not need to special-case the single item
case). For example, this code concatenates any number of username fields,
separated by
commas::
value = form.getlist("username")
usernames = ",".join(value)
If a field represents an uploaded file, accessing the value via the
:attr:`value` attribute or the :func:`getvalue` method reads the entire file in
memory as bytes. This may not be what you want. You can test for an uploaded
file by testing either the :attr:`filename` attribute or the :attr:`!file`
:attr:`~FieldStorage.value` attribute or the :meth:`~FieldStorage.getvalue`
method reads the entire file in memory as bytes. This may not be what you
want. You can test for an uploaded file by testing either the
:attr:`~FieldStorage.filename` attribute or the :attr:`~FieldStorage.file`
attribute. You can then read the data at leisure from the :attr:`!file`
attribute (the :func:`read` and :func:`readline` methods will return bytes)::
attribute (the :func:`~io.RawIOBase.read` and :func:`~io.IOBase.readline`
methods will return bytes)::
fileitem = form["userfile"]
if fileitem.file:
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@@ -155,8 +157,8 @@ attribute (the :func:`read` and :func:`readline` methods will return bytes)::
If an error is encountered when obtaining the contents of an uploaded file
(for example, when the user interrupts the form submission by clicking on
a Back or Cancel button) the :attr:`
done` attribute of the object for
the
field will be set to the value -1.
a Back or Cancel button) the :attr:`
~FieldStorage.done` attribute of
the
object for the
field will be set to the value -1.
The file upload draft standard entertains the possibility of uploading multiple
files from one field (using a recursive :mimetype:`multipart/\*` encoding).
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@@ -223,8 +225,8 @@ Therefore, the appropriate way to read form data values was to always use the
code which checks whether the obtained value is a single value or a list of
values. That's annoying and leads to less readable scripts.
A more convenient approach is to use the methods :meth:`
getfirst` and
:meth:`
getlist` provided by this higher level interface.
A more convenient approach is to use the methods :meth:`
~FieldStorage.getfirst`
and :meth:`~FieldStorage.
getlist` provided by this higher level interface.
.. method:: FieldStorage.getfirst(name, default=None)
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