[Fixed]-Reading user selection from Django 1.5 template without using Models

Yes, you don’t need models for this at all, what you need is a simple django form.

CHOICES = ( (1,"10"), (2,"20"), ...)

class MyForm(forms.form):
    ...
    num_select = forms.ChoiceField(choices = CHOICES)
    ...

Then in your view

from myapp.forms import MyForm

def my_view(request):

    if request.method = 'POST':
        form = MyForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
              num_select = form.cleaned_data['num_select']

This is of course a rather stripped down version of it, for additional information refer to the link above.

If you don’t want to use a form either, you can just access request.POST directly, but then what’s the point of using Django? you might as well use PHP

You can read raw form data by using HttpRequest.POST API

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.POST

It’s a dictionary-like object containing all given HTTP POST parameters.

You can just request.POST['num_select']

Remember to include if request.method == 'POST': before using request.POST