PyMongo

Manipulate Database/Collection

• Database List

client.list_database_names()

• Use a Database

db = client.test_database
# or
db = client['test_database']

• Collection list

db.list_collection_names()

• Use a Collection

collection = db['test_collection']
# or
collection = db.test_collection

• Create a collection

db.create_collection(‘test_collection’)

• Drop a collection

db.test_collection.drop()
# or
db.drop_collection('test_collection’)

• Drop a database

client.drop_database(‘test_database’)

Dictionary

• Using dictionaries to represent documents

import datetime
post = {
"author": "Mike",
"text": "My first blog post!",
"tags": [“MongoDB", “Python", “PyMongo"],
"date": datetime.datetime.utcnow()
}