List of items lost when using QueryDict

Question

I'm sending the following JSON to my webservice:

{
"message": "Hello!",
"people": ["Aaron", "Randy", "Chris", "Andrew"]
}

And when I access the QueryDict, dict['people'] returns the last item in the list, Andrew, not the list. What am I doing wrong?

When inspecting the object:

Answer 1

Use the getlist() method:

people = request.GET.getlist('people')