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<h1 class="epydoc">Class Storage</h1><span class="codelink"><a href="web2py.gluon.storage-pysrc.html#Storage">source&nbsp;code</a></span><br /><br />
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object --+    
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      dict --+
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            <strong class="uidshort">Storage</strong>
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A Storage object is like a dictionary except `obj.foo` can be used in 
  addition to `obj['foo']`.
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<span class="py-prompt">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span>o = Storage(a=1)
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  &gt;&gt;&gt; request.vars.x = 'abc' &gt;&gt;&gt; request.vars.y = ['abc',
  'def'] &gt;&gt;&gt; request.vars.getlist('x') ['abc'] &gt;&gt;&gt; 
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