How use sql "like" in PyMongo?
mongodb, nosql, pymongo, python
Solution
pymongo doesn't support regex literals, you have to use the '$regex' predicate:
db.houses.find({"hid":{"$regex": u"9"}})
Problem
How use sql "like" in PyMongo? ``` >>> db.houses.find().count() 11616 >>> db.houses.find({"hid":u"16999"}).count() 1 >>> db.houses.find({"hid":u"/9/"}).count() 0 ``` The documentation says that sql "like" (`SELECT * FROM users WHERE name LIKE "%Joe%"`) in MongoDB is `db.users.find ({name:/Joe/})`. If you specify a query directly to the cli-client interface mongodb, then everything works correctly, but does not work in pymongo. What is the problem? Thanks.