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In [116]: client = newpymongo.MongoClient(["messagesdb1.virtual.ninternal.com:27017"])

In [117]: db = client.get_database("test")

In [118]: db.collection_names()
Out[118]: [u'test']

In [119]: collection = db['test']

In [120]: collection
Out[120]: Collection(Database(MongoClient(host=[u'messagesdb1.virtual.ninternal.com:27017'], document_class=dict, tz_aware=False, connect=True), u'test'), u'test')

In [121]: collection.insert({"v": 5})
Out[121]: ObjectId('5ef25b4596dd1d2b81604368')

In [122]: collection.find_one({"v": 5})
Out[122]: {u'_id': ObjectId('5ef25b4596dd1d2b81604368'), u'v': 5}

In [123]: client_scnd = newpymongo.MongoClient(["messagesdb2.virtual.ninternal.com:27017"])

In [124]: client_scnd.get_database("test")["test"].find({})
Out[124]: <newpymongo.cursor.Cursor at 0x7ff3e4225d50>

In [125]: client_scnd.get_database("test")["test"].find_one({"v": 5})
Out[125]: {u'_id': ObjectId('5ef25b4596dd1d2b81604368'), u'v': 5}