pymongo – Python driver for MongoDB

Python driver for MongoDB.

pymongo.version = '2.2'

Current version of PyMongo.

pymongo.Connection

Alias for pymongo.connection.Connection.

pymongo.ReplicaSetConnection

Alias for pymongo.replica_set_connection.ReplicaSetConnection.

class pymongo.ReadPreference

An enum that defines the read preferences supported by PyMongo.

Connection type	Read Preference
	PRIMARY	SECONDARY	SECONDARY_ONLY
Connection to a single host.	Queries are allowed if the connection is to the replica set primary.	Queries are allowed if the connection is to the replica set primary or a secondary.	Same as SECONDARY
Connection to a mongos.	Queries are sent to the primary of a shard.	Queries are distributed among shard secondaries. Queries are sent to the primary if no secondaries are available.	Same as SECONDARY
ReplicaSetConnection	Queries are sent to the primary of the replica set.	Queries are distributed among replica set secondaries. Queries are sent to the primary if no secondaries are available.	Queries are never sent to the replica set primary. An exception is raised if no secondary is available.

pymongo.has_c()

Is the C extension installed?

New in version 1.5.

Sub-modules:

• connection – Tools for connecting to MongoDB
• database – Database level operations
• collection – Collection level operations
• cursor – Tools for iterating over MongoDB query results
• errors – Exceptions raised by the pymongo package
• master_slave_connection – Master-slave connection to MongoDB
• message – Tools for creating messages to be sent to MongoDB
• pool – Pool module for use with a MongoDB connection.
• replica_set_connection – Tools for connecting to a MongoDB replica set
• son_manipulator – Manipulators that can edit SON documents as they are saved or retrieved
• cursor_manager – Managers to handle when cursors are killed after being closed – DEPRECATED
• uri_parser – Tools to parse and validate a MongoDB URI