How to Use Pymongo

In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to use PyMongo in MongoDB.

(This tutorial is part of our MongoDB Guide. Use the right-hand menu to navigate.)

What is PyMongo?

PyMongo is the official Python driver that connects to and interacts with MongoDB databases. The PyMongo library is being actively developed by the MongoDB team.

Installing PyMongo

PyMongo can be easily installed via pip on any platform.

pip install pymongo

You can verify the PyMongo installation via pip or by trying to import the module to a Python file.

Checking via pip:

pip list --local

Let us create a simple Python file where we import the PyMongo module. The import statement is wrapped in a try-except statement to write a message to the output based on the success or failure of the import statement.

try:
import pymongo
print("Module Import Successful")
except ImportError as error:
print("Module Import Error")
print(error)