Many thanks, this should do nicely. I have already written a hack-job implementation to get around it, but will soon change it to something that makes use of this.
On 16 Apr., 10:23, hawkett <[email protected]> wrote: > If you use the (undocumented) underlying datastore API you will get > datastore objects as lists of dictionary-like objects. It is the > higher level datastore API that converts these objects into Models. > Consequently, using this API is slightly faster as well. For example > > from google.appengine.api import datastore > > q = datastore.Query("SomeKind", {"name =": "someName"}, None, False, > True, None) # Kind, query, ?, keys_only, compile, cursor > q_results = q.Run() > > for result in q_results: > print result.key() > print result['name'] > > The only mechanism I have found to understand this API is to review > the app engine code. The documentation in the code is pretty > reasonable, but generally no examples. > > On Apr 15, 1:17 pm, Lynge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, I am using an Expando class and I want to sort it. > > It needs to be sorted according to a dynamically assigned property so > > it has o be done at runtime. > > > I am using python and it could be done easily with something like: > > > dates = sorted(datelist, key=itemgetter('comp_date')) > > > But since the objects returned from the datastore are not iterable > > this is impossible. > > > So I thought that I would just create my own list of dicts and then I > > can iterate and sort it, but alas that is not possible either. > > > I can iterate over the primary just fine > > > for date in datesfromdb: > > datelist.append(dict(date)) > > > but no matter how I try to get the data out of the date object I have > > no luck. > > I dont want to name all the properties of the model since that would > > make it a big pain to update anything, but how then do I do it? > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
