The behavior or the record_id attribute in the Record class is not consistent.

[Manuel de la Peña]

When working with a Record class the following behavior can be found:

>> record = Record({'_id':'someid', 'some_data':'data'"}, record_type='some_url')
>> print str(record.record_id)
None
>> db = CouchDatabase('test')
>> print str(db.put_record(record))
'someid'

The record_id should used the data in the dict rather than None if possible.