MongoDB and Python Boilerplate

Quickly set up CRUD operations for MongoDB in python

Zachary Warnes
CodeX
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6 min readJul 5, 2022

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MongoDB is a no-SQL database popular for its document-oriented database style. If you know what a JSON file or a python dictionary looks like you’ll be familiar with MongoDB documents.

Break free from rigid relational database schema with MongoDB. The document style collections (equivalent to tables) enable developers to rapidly prototype different ideas and projects while not worrying about changing database schemas.

MongoDB is perfectly suited for dynamic programs with changing data requirements. Fortunately for us, it also has well-established APIs for many programming languages.

  • This article will focus on setting up a MongoDB instance with Python
  • Boilerplate code for each CRUD operation is shown for easy copy-paste programming
  • The code is well-documented, and styled, and types are added for additional clarity
  • Several tips and tricks are presented throughout

The first step is to create a connection from Python to the database.

Connection to MongoDB

There are several ways to connect to MongoDB, but the most straightforward way is to initialize a pymongo client…

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