Saving MultipleChoiceField in django as a list

Question

I have a Django application and want to display multiple choice checkboxes in a user's profile. They will then be able to select multiple items.

I am able save the data in the database, but it is saving like '[u'A', u'B']'.

What should i do to save the selections in a list?

Thanks a lot in advance.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 19 '15 at 18:49

It would help if you could be a bit more specific about the issue.

If you are unable to fetch the values of all the checkboxes and are getting only the last value, you are probably trying to use a get() method instead of a getlist() method. Kind of goes like this:
```
op = request.POST.getlist('MultipleChoiceField')
```
What you are storing currently (as shown in the desc above) is also a list, just that it is a list of unicode strings. If that is the issue, you should do something like this.
```
op = []
for x in op:
    op.append(str(x))
```

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