thanks bryan & bill! yes, I was using GQL because I wanted to query
via the data viewer. the KEY('mykeystring') on the right-hand side
not working was throwing me off. that's good to know that it works in
the shell.
audrey
On Feb 27, 11:49 am, Bill <billk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Audrey,
>
> If for some reason, you need to use GQL to lookup by key string
> instead of using get() like Bryan suggested, you can use KEY
> ('mykeystring') instead of the raw string on the right-hand side of
> your __key__ comparison. Full documentation is
> here:http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreference.html
>
> While the above works in code and the shell, it doesn't seem to work
> in the Data Viewer. I have entered an issue for this
> here:http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1105
>
> -Bill
>
> On Feb 26, 6:21 pm,AudreyM Roy <audr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How do I write a GQL query that's something like this...
>
> > SELECT * FROM Pet WHERE __key__='mykeystring'
>
> > the above returns the error BadFilterError: invalid filter: __key__
> > filter value must be a Key; received mykeystring (a unicode).
>
> >Audrey
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