How to convert a pymongo.cursor.Cursor into a dict?

Question

I am using pymongo to query for all items in a region (actually it is to query for all venues in a region on a map). I used db.command(SON()) before to search i

Answer 1

to_dict() Convert a SON document to a normal Python dictionary instance.

This is trickier than just dict(...) because it needs to be recursive.

http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/api/bson/son.html