PyMongo – How to List Database Names?

PyMongo List Database Names

To list databases present in a MongoDB instance,

1. Create a client to the MongoDB instance.
2. Using the client, call list_databases() function.
3. The functions returns an iterator, use for loop to iterate through the list of databases.

Example 1: List Databases present in MongoDB

import pymongo

myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")

for db in myclient.list_databases():
    print(db)

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