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ObjectId.toString()¶
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ObjectId.
toString
()¶ Returns: The string representation of the ObjectId() object. This value has the format of ObjectId(...)
.Changed in version 2.2: In previous versions
ObjectId.toString()
returns the value of the ObjectId as a hexadecimal string.In the following example, call the
toString()
method on an ObjectId (e.g.ObjectId("507c7f79bcf86cd7994f6c0e")
):This will return the following string:
You can confirm the type of this object using the following operation: