Removed the strip_form() utility to strip_post() in the Mia core application.

accounting/views.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ from mia_core import stored_post
 from mia_core.digest_auth import login_required
 from mia_core.period import Period
 from mia_core.utils import Pagination, get_multi_lingual_search, UrlBuilder, \
-    strip_form, new_pk, PaginationException
+    strip_post, new_pk, PaginationException
 from mia_core.views import DeleteView
 from .forms import AccountForm
 from .models import Record, Transaction, Account
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ def txn_store(request, txn_type, txn=None):
         HttpResponse: The response.
     """
     post = request.POST.dict()
-    strip_form(post)
+    strip_post(post)
     sort_post_txn_records(post)
     form = make_txn_form_from_post(post, txn_type, txn)
     if not form.is_valid():

mia_core/utils.py

@@ -43,16 +43,16 @@ def new_pk(cls):
             return pk
 
 
-def strip_form(form):
-    """Strips the values of a form.  Empty strings are converted to None.
+def strip_post(post):
+    """Strips the values of the POSTed data.  Empty strings are removed.
 
     Args:
-        form (dict[str]): The form.
+        post (dict[str]): The POSTed data.
     """
-    for key in list(form.keys()):
-        form[key] = form[key].strip()
-        if form[key] == "":
-            del form[key]
+    for key in list(post.keys()):
+        post[key] = post[key].strip()
+        if post[key] == "":
+            del post[key]
 
 
 class Language: