View needs to check for 'fields[]' instead of 'fields'?

Maybe this has just something to do with the version of jQuery or django i'm using, but for me the validation of individual fields doesn't work until I change the two mentions of 'fields' to 'fields[]' in views.py. So it becomes:

if request.POST.getlist('fields[]'):
fields = request.POST.getlist('fields[]') + ['**all**']

instead of:

if request.POST.getlist('fields'):
fields = request.POST.getlist('fields') + ['**all**']

(i accidentally closed a copy of this issue and can't figure out how to open it, so I'm creating a new one :-p )