From d0245bb5ba3b0f4ca4ce654fd199c167ce8c5e96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Loic Raucy <lraucy@multiposting.fr>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:14:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #238: dictfields handle numerical strings indexes.

---
 mongoengine/base.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mongoengine/base.py b/mongoengine/base.py
index 013afe78..4f302a87 100644
--- a/mongoengine/base.py
+++ b/mongoengine/base.py
@@ -1193,7 +1193,7 @@ class BaseDocument(object):
                 for p in parts:
                     if isinstance(d, DBRef):
                         break
-                    elif p.isdigit():
+                    elif isinstance(d, list) and p.isdigit():
                         d = d[int(p)]
                     elif hasattr(d, 'get'):
                         d = d.get(p)
@@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ class BaseDocument(object):
                 parts = path.split('.')
                 db_field_name = parts.pop()
                 for p in parts:
-                    if p.isdigit():
+                    if isinstance(d, list) and p.isdigit():
                         d = d[int(p)]
                     elif (hasattr(d, '__getattribute__') and
                           not isinstance(d, dict)):