checkbox, how to return state back to html

views.py "if statements" recognize that the box was checked.
I am not able to return the checkbox state back to web.html

I would like to see the last checkbox choices in my page.

web.html
<form action="/xxx" method="POST">
<input type="checkbox" value="checkbox" name=cbSMWord >
</form>

views.py
def xxx(request):
cbSMWord = request.POST.get('cbSMWord ','')
if (cbSMWord): print 'view recognized that checkbox was checked'
#this works

print 'cbSMWord=', cbSMWord #this gives empty string, why?

return render_to_response('c:/Python27/Scripts/Spokas/web.html',
{'cbSMWord':cbSMWord}, context_instance = RequestContext(request) )

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