I have been stumped by what I presume is a pretty simple issue. One of the fields in my documents is a MS windows-style UNC path ie: "unc_path": "\\server\share\path\file"
We are using Atlas and if I take a look within compass or the Atlas web UI I see what needs to be there. But when I perform a find for this info, db.collection.find({}, {"unc_path": 1}) a python escaped string is returned for each result, ie:
Is there a way to request that raw text be returned for these values or any other reasonable work around?
What you’re seeing is the way Python prints out string values in dictionaries - this isn’t something PyMongo is doing.
Python prints dict values using repr, which shows a Python string with backslashes escaped. If you take your document and run print(doc['unc_path'] you’ll see it without the escaped backslashes.
# Note the 'r' prefix in the following string, which allows you to avoid escaping the backslashes:
In [1]: my_string = r"\not\a\path"
In [2]: print(my_string)
\not\a\path
In [3]: my_string
Out[3]: '\\not\\a\\path'
In [4]: a_dict = { 'key': my_string}
In [5]: a_dict
Out[5]: {'key': '\\not\\a\\path'}
In [6]: print(a_dict)
{'key': '\\not\\a\\path'}
