Can't import MongoClient

Question

I am unable to do this:

from pymongo import MongoClient

I get:

>>> import pymongo
>>> from pymongo import         


        

Answer 1

I would like to suggest more robust answer:

pip show pymongo

now see where it direct you and from there simply remove the pymongo directory

rm -rf <the dir where pymongo lay>/pymongo*

Now, you can safely install pymongo again:

pip install pymongo

Answer 2

That package is probably outdated or broken. Run sudo apt-get purge python-pymongo, then sudo apt-get install python-pip, then finally sudo pip install pymongo.

Answer 3

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04.
This solved my problem:

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo pip install pymongo

Answer 4

Python Script

Try it once, into python script run following statement

# try.py

import pymongo

If above statement didn't throw any exception then you need to install pymongo-2.4, if existing pymongo verion is 2.3

Open terminal

First you need to uninstall old pymongo version

pip uninstall pymongo

Then use following commands to install pymongo-2.4

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pymongo/pymongo-2.4.tar.gz
tar xzf pymongo-2.4.tar.gz
cd pymongo-2.4
python setup.py install

Answer 5

yes it's true you need to update use, check the upgrade section says http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/installation.html

   easy_install -U pymongo