How to get the length of a cursor from mongodb using python?

Question

I\'m looking for a feasible way to get the length of cursor got from MongoDB.

Answer 1

According to the pymongo documentation, a Pymongo cursor, has a count method:

count(with_limit_and_skip=False)

By default this method returns the total length of the cursor, for example:

cursor.count()

If you call this method with with_limit_and_skip=True, the returned value takes limit and skip queries into account. For example, the following query will return 5 (assuming you have more than 5 documents):

cursor.limit(5).count(True)