Collection object is not callable. If you meant to call the createCollection method on a Database object it is failing because no such method exists

I am having issues with mongoDB specifically when trying to create a collection.

I have imported pymongo and DNS they both work but when I try to create a collection using db.createCollection("verified"), it would throw an error saying that 'Database' not an attribute of 'createCollection'

Here is the part of my code that involves MongoDB:

import pymongo
import dns

client = pymongo.MongoClient(myMongoDBconnectionURL)
db = client['MainDB']
db.createCollection("verified")

Do you know what is causing this?

Thanks

Solution 1:

I suspect that you are using the wrong MongoDB Documentation (as in, the documentation of a MongoDB implementation in a different programming language). createCollection is not a method of pymongo.database.Database, but create_collection is:

import pymongo
import dns

client = pymongo.MongoClient(myMongoDBconnectionURL)
db = client['MainDB']
db.create_collection("verified")