API Documentation

The PyMongo distribution contains three top-level packages for interacting with MongoDB. bson is an implementation of the BSON format, pymongo is a full-featured driver for MongoDB, and gridfs is a set of tools for working with the GridFS storage specification.

• bson – BSON (Binary JSON) Encoding and Decoding
  • BSON
  • decode()
  • decode_all()
  • decode_file_iter()
  • decode_iter()
  • encode()
  • gen_list_name()
  • has_c()
  • is_valid()
  • binary – Tools for representing binary data to be stored in MongoDB
  • code – Tools for representing JavaScript code
  • codec_options – Tools for specifying BSON codec options
  • datetime_ms – Support for BSON UTC Datetime
  • dbref – Tools for manipulating DBRefs (references to documents stored in MongoDB)
  • decimal128 – Support for BSON Decimal128
  • errors – Exceptions raised by the bson package