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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: TypeError in date_parse.py
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 17:09:03 +0000 (UTC)
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In <3d0038fd-00ec-4560-ab0d-06528f838026@googlegroups.com> pestrella@gmail.com writes:

> I think it's a float, I see in the code 

> if request.method == "POST":
>         end_timestamp = request.POST.get('end_timestamp', None)
>         start_timestamp = request.POST.get('start_timestamp', None)

> and in the debug of django 

> <QueryDict: {u'start_timestamp': [u'1378918630.398'],

That's a list, containing a string.  float() expects a single item, not a
list.

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