pymongoTest.py

from pymongo import MongoClient
import datetime
import pprint

client = MongoClient('mongodb://localhost:27017/')
db = client.test_database
collection = db.test_collection

post = {"author": "MSC",
         "text": "Testblog post!",
         "tags": ["mongodb", "python", "pymongo"],
         "date": datetime.datetime.utcnow()}

posts = db.posts
post_id = posts.insert_one(post).inserted_id
post_id


pprint.pprint(posts.find_one())