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Alex Gordon
Alex Gordon

Reputation: 60741

Can't import MongoClient

I am unable to do this:

from pymongo import MongoClient

I get:

>>> import pymongo
>>> from pymongo import MongoClient
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name MongoClient
>>>

I am able to import pymongo without issues.

I am running mongodb 2.2.3 and Python 2.7.

I've also tried this:

>>> connection = pymongo.MongoClient()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'MongoClient'
>>>

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 37067

Answers (16)

Shubham Mishra
Shubham Mishra

Reputation: 1

Firstly, create a virtual environment using Python 3.11 as the library has some changes which will not work with this code.

Secondly, along with pymongo, install pymongo[srv] then try to run the code. I hope it will work now.

To create conda environment:

conda create venv python==3.9 -y

To activate environment:

conda activate venv

Then to install the required packages:

pip install pymongo

pip install pymongo[srv]

Upvotes: 0

maaniB
maaniB

Reputation: 605

I had the same issue with mypy type checks for the MongoClient class of pymongo. This solved the issue:

from pymongo.mongo_client import MongoClient

Upvotes: 0

ESbros
ESbros

Reputation: 157

For newer version of pymongo, you don't need to import MongoClient. Do the following:

import pymongo

client = pymongo.MongoClient("localhost", 27017)
db = client.test_database
db.test_table

You'll get:

Collection(Database(MongoClient(host=['localhost:27017'], document_class=dict, tz_aware=False, connect=True), 'test_database'), 'test_table')

Upvotes: 0

Mike M
Mike M

Reputation: 21

You have a file named queue.py in your project folder. Rename that file, and that should fix the problem.

Upvotes: 0

sauravjoshi23
sauravjoshi23

Reputation: 867

Change filename from pymongo.py to something else.

Upvotes: 0

transparentcow
transparentcow

Reputation: 41

Make sure your python source file is not called pymongo.py

Upvotes: 0

Roushan
Roushan

Reputation: 4420

Worked for me for conda env

pip uninstall pymongo

then

pip install pymongo

Upvotes: 0

mistertandon
mistertandon

Reputation: 1504

Python Script

Try it once, into python script run following statement

# try.py

import pymongo

If above statement didn't throw any exception then you need to install pymongo-2.4, if existing pymongo verion is 2.3

Open terminal

First you need to uninstall old pymongo version

pip uninstall pymongo

Then use following commands to install pymongo-2.4

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pymongo/pymongo-2.4.tar.gz
tar xzf pymongo-2.4.tar.gz
cd pymongo-2.4
python setup.py install

Upvotes: 0

Ananda
Ananda

Reputation: 507

I had the same problem on Ubuntu 16.04.
This solved my problem: 

sudo apt-get install build-essential python-dev

sudo apt-get install python-pip

sudo pip install pymongo

Upvotes: 0

IKriKan
IKriKan

Reputation: 1147

If you had named your script pymongo.py, which masks the pymongo module from which you are importing.

Rename your script to something else like xyz.py (and delete the pymongo.pyc file if one was created next to it).

Upvotes: 5

Loony_D
Loony_D

Reputation: 41

This problem may occur if you have multiple .py programs in the current working directory. Deleting them solved my error. I am not sure of the reason though.

Upvotes: 2

hagay
hagay

Reputation: 85

I would like to suggest more robust answer:

pip show pymongo

now see where it direct you and from there simply remove the pymongo directory

rm -rf <the dir where pymongo lay>/pymongo*

Now, you can safely install pymongo again:

pip install pymongo

Upvotes: 2

Kevin Zhao
Kevin Zhao

Reputation: 2143

If you used pymongo.Connection and encountered error, you should know that after the new updates, you should use pymongo.MongoClient instead. I had this issue so hopefully this will be helpful to someone else.

Upvotes: 1

dbarenas
dbarenas

Reputation: 1100

yes it's true you need to update use, check the upgrade section says http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/installation.html 

   easy_install -U pymongo

Upvotes: 1

Esenti
Esenti

Reputation: 707

According to docs, MongoClient was introduced in version 2.4. As you installed pymongo from your distribution repository, it's quite possible it's not the most recent version. Try installing it via PiP (remove the one you have installed first):

pip install pymongo

Upvotes: 6

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 1426

That package is probably outdated or broken. Run sudo apt-get purge python-pymongo, then sudo apt-get install python-pip, then finally sudo pip install pymongo.

Upvotes: 27

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