Pymongo Not creating collection in mongodb

Question

Here is the simple piece of code to create collection.But collection is not created.

import pymongo

conn=pymongo.Connection()
db=conn["userdb"]
table=db["Books"]

COuld anyone help me out with this?

Answer 1

The collection will not be created until you add data, this is since collections and even databases in MongoDB are done lazily by default.

If you wish to explicitly allocate a collection eagerly then use db.create_collection(name): http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/api/pymongo/database.html#pymongo.database.Database.create_collection