title: Get value from select element via Django (without Django forms)
body: <p>I have a HTML form </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form&gt;
      &lt;select id="lr_action" name="lr_action"&gt;
          &lt;option value="CENTER"&gt;Center&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="LEFT"&gt;Left&lt;/option&gt;
          &lt;option value="RIGHT"&gt;Right&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way I can receive and set the value of this 'select' dropdown in views.py (where I load my main HTML page) without using Django forms class. 
  I am looking for a easy equivalent for the js attribute 'getElementById'.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you</p>