way to store POST variables when using django - django-templates

Question

with a form am searching schools nearby and displaying them as table.
inside views.py
def method1:
printquery = request.POST.copy()
zip = printquery['zip']
if not zip:
city = printquery['city']
state = printquery['state']
zip = getZip(city,state)
results = zipObj.getSchools(zip);
render_to_response('some.html',{'results':results,'query':printquery,})
inside template
<form id="print-search" target="_blank" action="" method="post" name="print">
<input type="hidden" value="{%if query%}{{query}}{%endif%} name="query"/>
<input type ="submit" value="Print the Results" name="submitPrint"/>
</form>
<table>
{% block xxx%}displays schools result {%endblock%}
</table>
when the "Print the results" button is clicked.I want to use 'query',
do the search again and print in separate page[I have no choice of storing in session id].
Problem am facing is, {{query}} is a turing to a string i.e.,u"{'zip': u'76123'"} on which i cannot do something like query['zip'],
Is there a way to solve this. Ideas are most welcome.

Answer 1

Instead of taking the whole dictionary as value, do something like this
<form id="print-search" target="_blank" action="" method="post" name="providerprint">
<input type="hidden" value="{%if query.zip %}{{query.zip}}{%else%}""{%endif%}" name="zip"/>
<input type="hidden" value="{%if query.city %}{{query.ciyt}}{%else%}""{%endif%}" name="city"/>
<input type="hidden" value="{%if query.state %}{{query.state}}{%else%}""{%endif%}" name="state"/>
<input type ="submit" value="Print this Search" name="submitProviderprint"/>
</form>
inside the views.py we can access this as
zip = params['zip']
city = params['city']
state = params['state']
and it worked for me.:)