MongoDB return True if document exists

Question

I want to return true if a userID already exists and false otherwise from my collection.I have this function but it always returns True.

def alr         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me

result = num.find({"num": num}, { "_id": 0 }) 
if result.count() > 0:  
   return
else:
   num.insert({"num": num, "DateTime": DateTime })