Pymongo find using int64 fields

Question

I'm trying to do a find within a MongoDB collection using the Pymongo python driver.

I'm using a key called "book id" which has a datatype of "int64", however the docs only mention the ability to search for documents that contain "book id" with an int64 datatype. e.g.

 db.books.find( { "book id": { $type : 18 } })

How can I perform the same search using Python and also include the key value to search for. e.g.

"book id": 12345

Answer 1

Numeric types are the one case where MongoDB will do the conversion for you. As such, you don't need to do anything special for int64 fields:

db.books.find({ "book id": 12345 })