Removing _id element from Pymongo results

Question

I\'m attempting to create a web service using MongoDB and Flask (using the pymongo driver). A query to the database returns documents with the \"_id\" field included, of course

Answer 1

To exclude the _id field in a find query in pymongo, you can use:

db.collection.find({}, {'_id': False})

The documentation is somewhat missleading on this as it says the _id field is always included. But you can exclude it like shown above.