Use text search in mongo 3.2+ with pymongo

textfind.py

# For pymongo against mongodb 3.2...
# Given a collection of documents like
# {'textfield': 'cool stuff in a doc',  'other': 'fields...'}
# 
# To perform the query, and get results sorted by the textual score:

db.my_collection.create_index([('textfield','text')])

cursor = db.my_collection.find(
    {'textfield': 'some string query'},
    {'_txtscr': {'$meta': 'textScore'}
).sort([('_txtscr', {'$meta':'textScore'})])