MongoDB, PyMongo example working with returned documents.

pymongo_work_with_document.py

from pymongo import MongoClient
import pymongo
import sys

# establish a connection to the database
connection = MongoClient("mongodb://localhost", safe=True)

# get a handle to the school database
db = connection.school
scores = db.scores

def find_skip_limit_sort_demo():

    query = {}
    counter = 0

    try:
        cursor = scores.find(query).skip(4)
        cursor = cursor.limit(5)

        # cursor = cursor.sort('student_id', pymongo.ASCENDING).skip(4).limit(1)
        cursor = cursor.sort([('student_id', pymongo.ASCENDING), ('score', pymongo.DESCENDING)])

    except:
        print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]

    for doc in cursor:
        my_doc = doc
        counter += 1
        my_doc['added'] = counter
        print my_doc['student_id'], my_doc['type'], my_doc['score'], my_doc['added']
    # or
        doc['added'] = counter
        print doc['student_id'], doc['type'], doc['score'], doc['added']

find_skip_limit_sort_demo()
connection.disconnect()