parse <class 'gluon.storage.Storage'>

[Pierre]

Hi,

I have a variable  r = request.post_vars of the form { 'a':1, 'b':2, 'ab': { 'aba':10 , 'abb':20 }  }

it's a gluon.storage.Storage object. how do I extract r['ab']    ?

this doesn't work :  r.pop('ab',None) ,  r.ab ,  r['ab']['aba'] ,   r.ab.aba

[Anthony]

Are you sure you have the structure correct? How is it populated, and what do you get when you print it?

[Pierre]

here is the view output displaying the object

r	:	address : 17 Rue Farges, 13008 Marseille, France admlev_one : Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur admlev_two : Bouches-du-Rhône country : FR latlon[lat] : 43.2806116 latlon[lon] : 5.384511599999996 locality : Marseille postalcode : 13008
t	:	<class 'gluon.storage.Storage'> it's well parsed 'latlon' is nested as 'ab' in the example above how do I print it /where ?

[Anthony]

Looks like maybe whatever process generates the post request is representing a nested data structure via brackets -- so the key "latlon[lat]" is meant to represent an object like {'latlon': {'lat': the_value}}. However, web2py doesn't know to parse keys containing brackets into a nested data structure, so it just takes the key as is. You can probably access the relevant value via request.post_vars['latlon[lat]'].

Anthony

[Pierre]

ok
I'll flatten the object     and I expect it's not going to complain.........

thanks Anthony