Best way to query a DictField in MongoEngine -

i've been hunting through mongoengine documentation , around stack overflow , there doesn't seem clear answer i'm asking: how best query dictfield? example code:

class note(document):     somedata = dictfield()  note = note() note.somedata['someid'] = {"name": "steve", "age":25} note.save() 

the closest find in docs be:

note.objects(somedata__name="steve")  

but hasn't been working again, feel should simple answer. help

you have wrong request, because miss someid.

see structure in db:

>>> db.note.findone() >>> {     "_id": objectid("'0'*24")     "somedata": {         "someid": {             {"name": "steve", "age":25}         }     } } 

so right request note.objects(somedata__someid__name="steve").