What is the equivalent of the collection.getIndexes() shell command in pymongo?

Question

I can\'t seem to find a getIndexes() command implemented as part of pymongo\'s Collection object - is that intentional? is it implemented somewhere else in the class hierarc

Answer 1

What you might be looking for is index_information() at the Collection level. From the docs:

Get information on this collection’s indexes.

Returns a dictionary where the keys are index names (as returned by create_index()) and the values are dictionaries containing information about each index.

>>> db.test.index_information()
{u'_id_': {u'key': [(u'_id', 1)]},
u'x_1': {u'unique': True, u'key': [(u'x', 1)]}}