pymongo: name 'ISODate' is not defined

Question

I have problem when i try to select data in mongodb with pymongo, this is my code :

import pymongo
from pymongo import MongoClient
import sys
from datetime i         


        

Answer 1

ISODate is a function in the Mongo shell, which is a javascript environment, it's not available within Python.

You can use dateutil for converting a string to datetime object in Python,

import dateutil.parser
dateStr = "2016-11-11T00:00:00.000Z"
dateutil.parser.parse(dateStr)  # returns a datetime.datetime(2016, 11, 11, 00, 0, tzinfo=tzutc())

Using PyMongo, if you want to insert datetime in MongoDB you can simply do the following:

import pymongo
import dateutil
dateStr = '2016-11-11T00:00:00.000Z'
myDatetime = dateutil.parser.parse(dateStr)
client = pymongo.MongoClient()
client.db.collection.insert({'date': myDatetime})