Can't import MongoClient

Question

I am unable to do this:

from pymongo import MongoClient

I get:

>>> import pymongo
>>> from pymongo import MongoClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name MongoClient
>>> 

I am able to import pymongo without issues.

I am running mongodb 2.2.3 and Python 2.7.

I've also tried this:

>>> connection = pymongo.MongoClient()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MongoClient'
>>> 

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

That package is probably outdated or broken.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 2

According to docs, MongoClient was introduced in version 2.4. As you installed pymongo from your distribution repository, it's quite possible it's not the most recent version. Try installing it via PiP (remove the one you have installed first):

pip install pymongo

Answer 3

If you had named your script pymongo.py, which masks the pymongo module from which you are importing.

Rename your script to something else like xyz.py (and delete the pymongo.pyc file if one was created next to it).