Question

I am having an issue trying to save data to MongoDB.

I first run this python program:

import pymongo
import sys

def main():
    connection = pymongo.Connection("mongodb://localhost", safe = True) 

    db = connection.m101
    people = db.people

    person = {'name':'Barack Obama', 'role':'president'}
    people.insert(person)

but then, when i try to retrieve the data from the mongoshell:

> use m101

switched to db m101

 > db.people.find()

returns nothing! I’m not sure what is going on. Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

Your code is not working because main() is never called.

Adding

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

will execute your defined main function when executed.