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 think something like this should work:

import os
import sys
import pymongo


mongo_url = os.getenv('MONGOLAB_URI', 'mongodb://localhost:27017')
db_name = 'mongotest'

if __name__ == '__main__':
  try:
   connection = pymongo.Connection(mongo_url)
   if 'localhost' in self.mongo_url:
     db_name = 'my_local_db_name'
   else:
     db_name = self.mongo_url.rsplit('/',1)[1]
   database = connection[db_name]
  except:
   print('Error: Unable to Connect')
   connection = None

if connection is not None:
  database.test.insert({'name': 'foo'})