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MongoHQ w/ pymongo on Heroku
import os
import pymongo
if os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']:
# Get a connection
conn = pymongo.Connection(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL'])
# Get the database
db = conn[urlparse(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']).path[1:]]
else:
# Not on an app with the MongoHQ add-on, do some localhost action
conn = pymongo.Connection('localhost', 27017)
db = conn['someapps-db']
# Test stuff
db.test_collection.insert({"testdoc":"totaltest"})
print db.test_collection.find()[0]
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