On the command line, this works:
$ mongo
> show dbs
mydatabase 1.0GB
However, this does not:
$ python
>>> import pymongo
>>> connection = pymongo.MongoClient()
>>> connection.mydatabase.find()
I read through docs here:
http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/tutorial.html
But do not understand how to either...
Why can't I access my database?
Connect to an existing database
import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient
connection = MongoClient()
db = connection.mydatabase
import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient
connection = MongoClient()
# connection.database_names() # depreciated
connection.list_database_names()
show dbs
and find()
are totally different commands as such you cannot compare the two.
connection.mydatabase.find()
Will actually do nothing because you cannot find()
documents on database level. You are probably looking for:
cursor = connection.mydatabase.mycol.find()
I am no Python programmer but something like that and the foreach
the cursor
var to get your data.
As an added note you will want to replace mycol
with the collection name that contains your documents.
As for querying for a list of databases you can do something like:
databases = connection.mydatabase.command({'listDatabases': 1});
As shown here: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/listDatabases/#listDatabases
However again I am no Python programmer but this should get you started.
On the python command line:
import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient
connection = MongoClient() ## connects by default to db at localhost:27017
connection.database_names() ## python binding equivalent to show dbs.
Although there doesn't seem to be a wealth of examples, it appears that the bindings are pretty complete within the Python Driver API Documentation .
The question implies user has a local MongoDB. However I found this question trying to connect to a remote MongoDB. I think the tutorial is worth mentioning (no other answer here mentioned how I can specify the host and the port)
The above code will connect on the default host and port. We can also specify the host and port explicitly, as follows:
client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
Or use the MongoDB URI format:
client = MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017/')
database_names() is deprecated. One can use list_database_names() instead.
mongo_db_url will be something like "mongodb://localhost:27017/". 27017 is deafult port number, replace suitably.
from pymongo import MongoClient
client = MongoClient(<mongo_db_url>)
#or client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
client.list_database_names()
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