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from pymongo import MongoClient


    

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client = MongoClient('mongodb://test:passwordhere@mongodb/test') # mongodb = docker magic


    

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db = client.test


    

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collection = db.test_collection


    

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import datetime
post = {"author": "Mike",
    "text": "My first blog post!",
    "tags": ["mongodb", "python", "pymongo"],
    "date": datetime.datetime.utcnow()}


    

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posts = db.posts # creates collection posts


    

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post_id = posts.insert_one(post).inserted_id


    

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post_id


    

    
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ObjectId('597b026eb09bc0000fd6442c')

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import pprint


    

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pprint.pprint(posts.find_one())


    

    




{'_id': ObjectId('597b026eb09bc0000fd6442c'),
 'author': 'Mike',
 'date': datetime.datetime(2017, 7, 28, 9, 22, 53, 566000),
 'tags': ['mongodb', 'python', 'pymongo'],
 'text': 'My first blog post!'}

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