Check if mongodb database exists?

Question

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

Answer 1

The PyMongo example above didn't work for me, so I rewrote it using the more standard list_databases() method to the MongoClient library:

from pymongo import MongoClient db_name = "foo" conn = MongoClient('mongodb://localhost,localhost:27017') if bool(db_name in conn.list_databases()): print true # or return true here else: print false # or return false here