Question

I’m trying to do this:

event = coll.find_one({"_id": {"$oid": event_id}})

Where event_id is the string from an ObjectId:

event_id='50bbd48eefbdd2a1e83bc440'

but the event ends up empty. I’m certain this is not how you find documents with the ObjectId’s in pymongo, but I have searched for a while and have not figured out how. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

You have to convert event_id to an ObjectId like this:

from bson.objectid import ObjectId
event_id='50bbd48eefbdd2a1e83bc440'
event = coll.find_one({"_id": ObjectId(event_id)})