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= Class: DSObject =
= Class: DSObject =
=== How do I create access the metadata entries for a datastore object? ===
Every DSObject created by datastore.create() has a metadata property. This property refers to a [[#Class: DSMetadata | DSMetadata object]], which contains the metadata for your datastore object. The code below shows how to read metadata values by referring to the metadata property of a DSObject. metadata is a Python dictionary object.
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from sugar.datastore import datastore
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        #my_dsobject is of type datastore.DSObject
        #object_id is a datastore object (returned from the datastore Chooser
        my_dsobject = datastore.get(object_id)
       
        #Access the 'description' property
        print my_dsobject.metadata['description']
        #other standard objects in the metadata dictionary include 'tags',
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=== How do I create new metadata entries or reassign metadata for a datastore object that has been created? ===
=== How do I create new metadata entries or reassign metadata for a datastore object that has been created? ===