Failure to parce query

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I'm very new to elasticsearch so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. I'm writing python code to read data from the stack but from time to time I get a message like this:

Exception: Invalid Query: [erm/d-2CllN-ReyNWTL4WCbUDg] org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryShardException: Failed to parse query [_id : -9bYmIYBZFb2o7rVRi3s]; org.apache.lucene.queryparser.classic.ParseException: Cannot parse '_id : -9bYmIYBZFb2o7rVRi3s': Encountered " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 6.
Was expecting one of:
    <BAREOPER> ...
    "(" ...
    "*" ...
    <QUOTED> ...
    <TERM> ...
    <PREFIXTERM> ...
    <WILDTERM> ...
    <REGEXPTERM> ...
    "[" ...
    "{" ...
    <NUMBER> ...

It only occurs when the _id starts with the - character. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Hi @mikes1962,

Are you using the Elasticsearch Python client? Which version of the client and Elasticsearch are you using?

I agree that the '-' character at the start is causing the issue. Can you share the code and query you are trying to run?