How can I use the mongolab add-on to Heroku from python?

Question

The documentation only talks about how to do it from ruby.

Answer 1

I'm using the following:

import os
from urlparse import urlsplit
from pymongo import Connection

url = os.getenv('MONGOLAB_URI', 'mongodb://localhost:27017/testdb')
parsed = urlsplit(url)
db_name = parsed.path[1:]

# Get your DB
db = Connection(url)[db_name]

# Authenticate
if '@' in url:
    user, password = parsed.netloc.split('@')[0].split(':')
    db.authenticate(user, password)