request.form.items() returns the the same result as request.form !!

First, I would like to thank Kenneth Love and the team at Treehouse for such great courses.

As far as I know, request.form returns an ImmutableMultiDict object, which can be converted into a dictionary dict(request.form) because an ImmutableMultiDict object is like a dict_items().

In the "Cookies" video, Kenneth used dict(request.form.items()). I found that dict(request.form) will do the trick.

This is because ImmutableMultiDict allows for a single key to have more than one value. So, if we have two form fields with the same value then dict(request.form.items()) will return the first value of that key. However, dict(request.form) will return a "list" of all the values of that same key.

Example:

my_object = ImmutableMultiDict ([('a', 1), ('a', 2), ('b', 3)])
dict(my_object.items())

The result is: {'a': 1, 'b': 3}

While this code:

dict(my_object)

returns: {'a': [1, 2], 'b': 3}

Therefore, the "cute bear" template should be returned as follows:

return render_template("index.html", saves=" ".join(data["name"]))

Please correct me if I am wrong!

Thanks