From a7bb2b9b305bdd2f8c1e29ddcc142f72c9978b9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fred Drake Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:44:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Be more consistent, both internally and with recommended practice. This closes SF bug #547953. --- Doc/lib/libcgi.tex | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex index 4ce4f5c3fb..2f590a87f4 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcgi.tex @@ -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: -- 2.40.0