Check if mongodb database exists?

Question

Is there a possibility to check if a mongo database allready exists?

Answer 1

in python using Pymongo

from pymongo import MongoClient

db_name = "foo"
conn = MongoClient('mongodb://localhost,localhost:27017')
db = self.conn[str(db_name)]
if bool(db_name in conn.database_names()):
   collection.drop()