Hi, I'm a newbie that just started to learn python, html and etc. I have some questions to ask and hope that someone can help me on. I'm trying to code a python script (with HTML) to get values from a html form that consists of about 10 checkbox and a textbox where user have to key in a value to perform a search.

From python tutors, I learned that I have to use the following method:

### qtype = data.getfirst('qtype') ---- checkbox name qtext = data.getfirst('qtext', '') ---- textbox name ### but I don't really know how to do it. Should I use qtype = data.getlist('qtype') to get the value from the checkbox and how to? Currently, my method required me to type in every possible combination of the checkbox and I know that this is wrong. I wanna to include %(qtype) in my query statement so that the script will look for the value that contain qtype everytime a form is processs but the way I'm doing now is wrong. query = "select %(qtype)s from shot_descriptions where shot_number=%(qtext)s", qtype, qtext Thus, can someone help me on this. Thank you for any help. Shufen