How to change a django QueryDict to Python Dict?

Question

Let's pretend I have the following QueryDict:

<QueryDict: {u'num': [0], u'var1': [u'value1', u'value2'], u'var2': [u'8']}>

I'd like to have a dictionary out of this, eg:

{'num': [0], 'var1':['value1', 'value2'], 'var2':['8']}

(I don't care if the unicode symbol u stays or goes.)

If I do queryDict.dict(), as suggested by the django site, I lose the extra values belonging to var1, eg:

{'num': [0], 'var1':['value2'], 'var2':['8']}

I was thinking of doing this:

myDict = {}
for key in queryDict.iterkeys():
    myDict[key] = queryDict.getlist(key)

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

New in Django >= 1.4.

QueryDict.dict()

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ref/request-response/#django.http.QueryDict.dict