MongoHQ w/ pymongo on Heroku

mongo.py

import os
import pymongo

if os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']:
    # Get a connection
    conn = pymongo.Connection(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL'])
    
    # Get the database
    db = conn[urlparse(os.environ['MONGOHQ_URL']).path[1:]]
else:
    # Not on an app with the MongoHQ add-on, do some localhost action
    conn = pymongo.Connection('localhost', 27017)
    db = conn['someapps-db']

# Test stuff
db.test_collection.insert({"testdoc":"totaltest"})
print db.test_collection.find()[0]

requirements.txt

pymongo