Access field value(s) of multi-select dropdown field

Question

I'm building a python script that produces a custom export of Jira data to an Excel spreadsheet. I'm having issues to access the field value(s) of multi-select dropdown fields. The code contains a dict for themes. Within that dict, the following works just fine for most fields: 'Field name' : theme.fields.customfield_123, However, for fields of type multi-select dropdown, the script returns something like: [] In case the issue has multiple values for that field, the return value would look like: [, ] I need a function that only returns the value(s), in the upper example "xxx, yyy". I've tried multiple approaches without success. Any ideas?

Paul Stahlke_bptp3c · Answer

Hi Mike, I just encountered this same issue. I iterate through the values as follows. I first check if the issue has the customfield available and then if it has the any values:

if hasattr(theme.fields, 'customfield_10123'):
    if theme.fields.customfield_10123:
        for item in theme.fields.customfield_10123:
            print(item.value)