Pymongo find and modify

Question

I have a find query in a mongodb collection and would like this query to also update a field... something like this...

db = pymongo.MongoClient(DB_HOST)[COLLECTION][Product]
new_posts = db.find({'type':{'$ne':'overview'}, 'indice':0, 'thread_id':{'$nin':front_db_ids}, 'updated':{'$exists':False}},{'_id': 0}) + {{'$set': {'updated':'yes'}}, multi=True

I found the findandmodify method but could not find any example of how to use it...

Thanks in advance for any help!

Answer 1

Note that the methods in this answer have been deprecated. See Sid Holland's answer for more details.

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refer the documentation, for example

db.update({"_id": acs_num}, {"$set": mydata}, upsert = True)

or find_and_modify according to docs says Returns either the object before or after modification based on new parameter. If no objects match the query and upsert is false, returns None. If upserting and new is false, returns {}

for example:

In [1]: from pymongo import MongoClient

In [2]: client = MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017")
   ...: db = client["testdb"]
   ...: mycollection = db["mydb"]
   ...: 

In [3]: import datetime
   ...: post1 = {"author": "Mike", "text": "My first blog post!", "tags": ["mongodb", "python", "pymongo"], "date": datetime.datetime.utcnow()}
   ...: 

In [4]: mycollection.insert(post1)
Out[4]: ObjectId('535fd580c314f91d28c35ee1')

In [5]: [x for x in mycollection.find()]
Out[5]: 
[{u'_id': ObjectId('535fd580c314f91d28c35ee1'),
  u'author': u'Mike',
  u'date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 29, 16, 38, 15, 457000),
  u'tags': [u'mongodb', u'python', u'pymongo'],
  u'text': u'My first blog post!'}]

In [6]: mycollection.find_and_modify(query={'author':'Mike'}, update={"$set": {'author': "Mike2"}}, upsert=False, full_response= True)
Out[6]: 
{u'lastErrorObject': {u'n': 1, u'updatedExisting': True},
 u'ok': 1.0,
 u'value': {u'_id': ObjectId('535fd580c314f91d28c35ee1'),
  u'author': u'Mike',
  u'date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 29, 16, 38, 15, 457000),
  u'tags': [u'mongodb', u'python', u'pymongo'],
  u'text': u'My first blog post!'}}

In [7]: [ x for x in mycollection.find()]
Out[7]: 
[{u'_id': ObjectId('535fd580c314f91d28c35ee1'),
  u'author': u'Mike2',
  u'date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 29, 16, 38, 15, 457000),
  u'tags': [u'mongodb', u'python', u'pymongo'],
  u'text': u'My first blog post!'}]