how to store the input of radio into datastore

template_values = {'Answer1':Answer1,
                               'Answer2':Answer2,
                               'Answer3':Answer3,
                               'Answer4':Answer4,
                               'Answer5':Answer5,
                               'QuestionText': QuestionText,
                               'address':address,}
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'QuestionPageOthers.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))

HTML

<div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer1}} name="answer" id="answer1"/>{{Answer1}}<spa开发者_开发百科n></span></div>
<div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer2}} name="answer" id="answer2"/>{{Answer2}}<span></span></div>
<div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer3}} name="answer" id="answer3"/>{{Answer3}}<span></span></div>
<div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer4}} name="answer" id="answer4"/>{{Answer4}}<span></span></div>
<div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer5}} name="answer" id="answer5"/>{{Answer5}}<span></span></div>

I am doing a survey which keeps track of how many users select different options like the codes above, the first part I pass the answers to the Django templates and form the survey using radio buttons, but how can I detect which button is clicked on. I need to keep track of times that each button has been selected. However, how can I pass the results back to the Python request handler. self.request.get("name") works for <input type="text"> but doesn't work for radio buttons.

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If your radio buttons are located within the form being POST'ed to your request handler, then you can get the value associated with the selected radio button like this:

 select_answer = self.request.get('answer')

This quite similar to how you retrieved the value entered for the name text field you described in your question - you just replace name with the name associated with the radio input elements (i.e., answer in this case).

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template.html

<form method="post" action="some-view">
    <div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer1}} name="answer" id="answer1"/>{{Answer1}}<span></span></div>
    <div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer2}} name="answer" id="answer2"/>{{Answer2}}<span></span></div>
    <div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer3}} name="answer" id="answer3"/>{{Answer3}}<span></span></div>
    <div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer4}} name="answer" id="answer4"/>{{Answer4}}<span></span></div>
    <div><input type="RADIO" value={{Answer5}} name="answer" id="answer5"/>{{Answer5}}<span></span></div>
    ...
</form>

views.py

def some-view(request):
    if request.method == 'POST':
        answer = request.POST['answer']
        # then update your tally here
        ...

Above code should work, but it's not how i could have implemented this. You will find it more efficient to use django forms in this case.