What is the correct way to query MongoDB for _id using string by using Python?

Question

I am using pymongo driver. Supposedly, one can use a string to query the _id field of a document, like this:

thing = db.things.find_one({'_id':'4ea113d6b684853c8e000001'}) 

But it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It should be :

from pymongo.objectid import ObjectId    thing = db.things.find_one({'_id': ObjectId('4ea113d6b684853c8e000001') }) 

EDIT: The current import is: from bson.objectid import ObjectId