Question

Can I create a new database simply by connecting to the MongoDB server, or is there another way to create it using Python? If so, how is this done?

Answer 1

MongoDB creates databases and collections automatically for you if they don’t exist already.

For using python library with MongoDB, check out this documentation.

Warning:
the example is based on Pymongo 2.1.
If you’re using Pymongo 3.4, check this doc.

from pymongo import Connection
connection = Connection()
db = connection['test-database']
collection = db['test-collection']

So here you can use any name for database and collection.