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Why Email, Username, PostalCode, etc as entities in GAE Datastore

App Engine Data store has this property "PostalAddress" but what is the purpose of using it?

Here it is in the docs: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/typesandpropertyclasses#PostalAddress

I have addresses that I want to store and I was thinking if I ever wanted to get the cities or zip codes I'd be able to easily query them if I stored them in different column fields. Or is there a way to extract the zip code or city/state or street line from the postal address property without having to use regex on it...

Anyone know how use this property?

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It's basically just a String property. No validation is performed or any kind of structure is assumed. They probably used it in order to support the gd:postalAddress element.

https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/1.0/elements?hl=el#gdPostalAddress

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