How do I pass Boolean values created in Python to MongoDB?

Question

Using Python 3.4 I'm parsing a document read from MongoDB (3.0.2) - I perform various tests and generate JSON/BSON of the form below:

{  
     'FixedH': False,
     'Mstereo': True,
     'RecMet': False,
     'Sstereo': True,
     'bond': False,
     'charge': False,
     'isotope': False,
     'length': 223,
     'nocomponents': 1,
     'nolayers': 6,
     'stereo': True
}

If I try and write this back to MongoDB (from the shell) I get the following error:

ReferenceError: False is not defined at (shell):1:175

If I manually convert my booleans (False --> false) so that they are all lower case the error disappears and the document is written to the collection in MongoDB.

I'm guessing I'm not the first to encounter this problem but I can't find any published workarounds. How can I get around this case sensitivity mis-match?

Answer 1

Are you inserting the documents from mongo shell? Mongo shell won't accept 'False' or 'True' as boolean values. You should use a Python Mongo driver client. Pymongo should work. Check the below sample:

import pymongo
client = pymongo.MongoClient('localhost', 27017)
db = client.testdatabase
col = db.testcollection
col.insert({'FixedH': False,'Mstereo': True,'RecMet': False,'Sstereo': True,'bond': False,
            'charge': False, 'isotope': False,'length': 223,'nocomponents': 1,
            'nolayers': 6,'stereo': True})
cursor = col.find()
print 'Found', cursor.count()
print cursor.next()
client.close()

Answer 2

Call json_str = json.dumps(YOUR_OBJECT) and then insert it into MongoDB from shell