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By default, stores everything from kwargs into self as an attribute with the same name

Overrides: object.__init__

A class method that returns the MongoDB collection that instances of the class will be stored in. By default, the collection name is the lowercased classname

By default, prints the string representation of self.to_dict()

Overrides: object.__str__

Converts the model into a dictionary suitable for passing into MongoDB. By default, it dumps all attributes not prefixed with '_' into the dictionary.

Saves the model in MongoDB. By default, it simply writes the results of to_dict() into the database. If the field self._id is None, it performs and insert and sets self._id to the id of the newly inserted entry. If self._id is already set, it updates the existing field

Finds an instance of a document by its unique id. oid can either be an ObjectId or its string representation

Finds the first instance of cls matching query in the database and returns it. Information about the query argument can be found in the PyMongo documentation for the Collection class.

Finds instances of cls in the database. Information about query, sort, and limit can be found in the PyMongo documentation for the Collection class.

Calls ensure_index on the MongoDB collection associated with this class. Read the PyMongo documentation for more information.

x.__setattr__('name', value) <==> x.name = value

Overrides: object.__setattr__

(inherited documentation)

x.__getattribute__('name') <==> x.name

Overrides: object.__getattribute__

(inherited documentation)