How is ndb.StringProperty equals a python string?

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I have this ndb Model class

class foo(ndb.Model):
  abc = ndb.StringProperty()

Now when I used abc like this:

if foo.abc == "a":
  print "I'm in!"

It gets into the if block and prints I'm in!

How's this possible?

I also tried printing foo.abc, it returned StringProperty('abc')

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1 Answers

You have to instantiate an instance of class to use properties properly.

class Foo(ndb.Model):
  abc = ndb.StringProperty()

foo = Foo()
foo.abc = 'some val'
print foo.abc  # prints 'some val'
print foo.abc == 'a' # prints False
print Foo.abc == 'a' # prints something not boolean - can't check now.

You are are getting "I'm in!" because ndb properties are overwriting __equal__ operator and returning a non empty object that is treated as True. This is used to make queries like query.filter(foo.abc == 'def')

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