Since SDK 1.2.6, your can specify a key for a new entity:
key = db.Key.from_path('MyModel', 1234)
MyModel(key=key).put()
So if you have an id or key_name field, you can specify its key, and
it won't put duplicate entities with the same key into databstore
(just rewrite them).
2009/11/13 Baron <[email protected]>:
> Hello,
>
> I am uploading some data and sometimes a put() fails (TimeoutError) so
> that only a subset of the records are added. If I put() the records
> again then there will be duplicates.
>
> I first thought of using transactions, but creating entity groups
> seems awkward for my dataset - I have 100000 records with no logical
> groups.
>
> I was thinking would an easier workaround be to just give each record
> a unique key_name, so that if it was uploaded twice it would just
> override the previous record. Is that a sensible solution?
>
> Thanks
>
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