MongoDB and Python

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"Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios"--Provided by publisher. Abstract: "MongoDB and Python" is a cookbook-style text to help Python programmers work with MongoDB.  Read more... Content: Table of Contents Preface Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Safari® Books Online How to Contact Us Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Getting Started Introduction Finding Reference Documentation Installing MongoDB Running MongoDB Setting up a Python Environment with MongoDB Chapter 2. Reading and Writing to MongoDB with Python Connecting to MongoDB with Python Getting a Database Handle Inserting a Document into a Collection Write to a Collection Safely and Synchronously Guaranteeing Writes to Multiple Database Nodes Introduction to MongoDB Query Language. Reading, Counting, and Sorting Documents in a CollectionUpdating Documents in a Collection Deleting Documents from a Collection MongoDB Query Operators MongoDB Update Modifiers Chapter 3. Common MongoDB and Python Patterns A Uniquely Document-Oriented Pattern: Embedding Fast Lookups: Using Indexes with MongoDB Location-based Apps with MongoDB: GeoSpatial Indexing Code Defensively to Avoid KeyErrors and Other Bugs Update-or-Insert: Upserts in MongoDB Atomic Read-Write-Modify: MongoDB's findAndModify Fast Accounting Pattern Chapter 4. MongoDB with Web Frameworks. Pylons 1.x and MongoDBPyramid and MongoDB Django and MongoDB Going Further.