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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:55:50+00:00

Ok, you guys were quick and helpful last time so I’m going back to

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Ok, you guys were quick and helpful last time so I’m going back to the well 😉

Disclaimer: I’m new to python and very new to App Engine. What I’m trying to do is a simple modification of the example from the AppEngine tutorial.

I’ve got my date value being stored in my Memory class:

class Memory(db.Model):
    author = db.UserProperty()
    content = db.StringProperty(multiline=True)
    date = db.DateProperty(auto_now_add=True)

and now I want to be able to lookup records for a certain date. I wasn’t sure exactly how to do it so I tried a few things including:

memories = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * from Memory where date = '2007-07-20')
and
memories = Memory.all()
memories.filter("date=", datetime.strptime(self.request.get('date'), '%Y-%m-%d').date())
and
memories = Memory.all()
memories.filter("date=", self.request.get('date'))

But every time I run it, I get an ImportError. Frankly, I’m not even sure how to parse these error message I get when the app fails but I’d just be happy to be able to look up the Memory records for a certain date.

EDIT: FULL SOURCE BELOW

import cgi
import time

from datetime import datetime
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.ext import webapp
from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import run_wsgi_app
from google.appengine.ext import db

class Memory(db.Model):
    author = db.UserProperty()
    content = db.StringProperty(multiline=True)
    date = db.DateProperty()

class MainPage(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        self.response.out.write('<html><body>')

        memories = db.GqlQuery('SELECT * from Memory ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 10')

        for memory in memories:
            self.response.out.write('<b>%s</b> wrote: ' % memory.author.nickname())
            self.response.out.write('<em>%s</em>' % memory.date)
            self.response.out.write('<blockquote>%s</blockquote>' % cgi.escape(memory.content))

        self.response.out.write("""
<div style="float: left;">
<form action="/post" method="post">
    <fieldset>
    <legend>Record</legend>
    <div><label>Memory:</label><input type="text" name="content" /></textarea></div>
    <div><label>Date:</label><input type="text" name="date" /></div>
    <div><input type="submit" value="Record memory" /></div>
    </fieldset>
</form>
</div>
<div style="float: left;">
<form action="/lookup" method="post">
    <fieldset>
    <legend>Lookup</legend>
    <div><label>Date:</label><input type="text" name="date" /></div>
    <div><input type="submit" value="Lookup memory" /></div>
    </fieldset>
</form>
</div>""")

        self.response.out.write('</body></html>')

class PostMemory(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        memory = Memory()

        if users.get_current_user():
            memory.author = users.get_current_user()

        memory.content = self.request.get('content')
        memory.date = datetime.strptime(self.request.get('date'), '%Y-%m-%d').date()

        memory.put()
        self.redirect('/')

class LookupMemory(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def post(self):
        memories = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Memory WHERE date = '2009-07-21'")

        for memory in memories:
            self.response.out.write('<b>%s</b> wrote: ' % memory.author.nickname())
            self.response.out.write('<em>%s</em>' % memory.date)
            self.response.out.write('<blockquote>%s</blockquote>' % cgi.escape(memory.content))     

application = webapp.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage), ('/post', PostMemory), ('/lookup', LookupMemory)], debug=True)

def main():
    run_wsgi_app(application)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()
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  1. Editorial Team
    class Memory(db.Model):
    author = db.UserProperty()
    content = db.StringProperty(multiline=True)
    date = db.DateProperty(auto_now_add=True)

    I think that you are either getting import errors for memory or your are getting an import error for datetime

    if Memory is in another .py file, e.g otherpyfile.py, you will need to do from otherpyfile import Memory and then use it that way

    if its a datetime issue then you will need to import datetime. Your first answer had a mismatch of quotes so sorted that. I sorted your middle one so that if you import datetime 

    memories = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * from Memory where date = '2007-07-20'")

memories = Memory.all().filter("date=", datetime.datetime.strptime(self.request.get('date'), '%Y-%m-%d').date())

memories = Memory.all().filter("date=", self.request.get('date'))

    The appengine error screen isn’t always helpful so have a look at the logs that are being thrown in the command prompt. If you see that error it might be worth dumping the short stacktrace it does so I can try help you further.

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