Dynamic query in mongodb and variable

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 10:52 PM, MG <m.gamberi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ciao,
> I have this function:
>
>
>     def lockup_info(refer):
>         info = []
>         amb = CONN.db.xxxx.find({"reference": refer}
>         for a in amb:
>             print a
>
>
>
> How can I pass this value { "$exists": False } and tell python to not consider it as a string?
>
>     var = '{ "$exists": False }'
>     lockup_info(var)
>
>
>
> The code above doesn't work. A variable so defined is considered a string.

What do you want it to be, if not a string? Do you want to pass a
dictionary? Then do - just pass it in directly.

(Side point: I think you mean "lookup_info", not "lockup_info".)

ChrisA