Question

Each document has a date property which is updated with new MongoDate() whenever the document is modified.

How one can get N last modified documents? But not since some specific date. Just N documents with latest dates. Maybe something like sort only not as a cursor method, but a query parameter exists?

Answer 1

In a project I am working on, I use something like this to extract the last five entry, in reverse order (newest to older)

for e in coll.find().sort("data_ins", -1).limit(5):
    # do something

where data_ins is a timestamp, but I suppose it work on every sortable field.