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David
David

Reputation: 149

Unable to get value (email) from dictionary in Python/Django

OrderedDict([('first_name', <django.forms.fields.CharField object at 0x7f9b5bed4c50>), ('last_name', <django.forms.fields.CharField object at 0x7f9b3b7abf50>), ('email', <django.forms.fields.EmailField object at 0x7f9b3b7abf10>)])

I am a new programmer in Python/Django, and I neeed a bit a of help.

I have this dictionnary, when I called self.fields. I am trying to get access the value of email with email = self.fields.get('email', False), which is supposed to be something like [email protected], but I got <django.forms.fields.EmailField object at 0x7f9b3b7abf10>. Is it because the space is not used yet? Otherwise, how could I get the value of email?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 69

Answers (1)

Adam Barnes
Adam Barnes

Reputation: 3223

The correct way to get data from a form is to first call .is_valid(), then look up the value in self.cleaned_data, in this case, you'd do:

if self.is_valid():
    email = self.cleaned_data['email']

For more information, see the docs.

Upvotes: 5

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