How to select a single field in MongoDB using Pymongo?

Question

I\'m trying to find a record within MongoDB, and filter _id from the result.

Here is my code:

#app.py
@app.route(\'/login\', methods = [         


        

Answer 1

You need to specify the field you want to return using projection.

data = db.author.find_one({'email' : email, 'password' : password}, {'_id': 1})