Error retrieving multiple select option in Django - html

Question

I have a drop down with multiple select option in my html page. On form submission, I am trying to capture all of the selected options by user in that drop down. but it throws me an error instead "TypeError:'instancemethod' object is not subscriptable". Following is my template.html and views.py
Template.html:
Select packages:
<form name=automationForm action="/vsawebauto/automation/results/" method="post">
//some form elements
<select id="package" name="package[]" multiple="multiple" size="5">
{% for i in ida.package_set.all %}
<option value="{{ i.pkg_id }}">{{ i.display_name }}</option>
{% endfor %}
</select>
//some form elements
<input type="submit" id="submit" value="Submit Job" />
Views.py:
def results(request):
//some code
selected_packages = request.POST.getlist['package[]']
//some code
return HttpResponse("Selected Packages:"+selected_packages)
Note: I debugged the code as well. The request.POST object has multiple selected values. For eg. when 1 and 701 packages are selected by user, request.POST has 'package[]': ['1','701']. But the code fails when I do request.POST.getlist['package[]']

Answer 1

request.POST.getlist['package[]']
Should be
request.POST.getlist('package[]')
Replace [] with () which was the cause of the error.
Here is the documentation and usage of getlist.
Also, change
return HttpResponse("Selected Packages:"+selected_packages)
to
return HttpResponse("Selected Packages: %s" % selected_packages)