Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice.

This closes SF bug #547953.
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Fred Drake 2002-04-26 20:44:14 +00:00
parent 38f71973e5
commit a7bb2b9b30

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@ -135,16 +135,14 @@ instance but a list of such instances. Similarly, in this situation,
\samp{form.getvalue(\var{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 \function{type()} built-in function to determine whether you
the \function{isinstance()} built-in function to determine whether you
have a single instance or a list of instances. For example, this
code concatenates any number of username fields, separated by
commas:
\begin{verbatim}
from types import ListType
value = form.getvalue("username", "")
if isinstance(value, ListType):
if isinstance(value, list):
# Multiple username fields specified
usernames = ",".join(value)
else: