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-A python driver for Mongo.
-
-Here is a sample interactive session showing it's basic usage. More
-documentation is available in the extensive docstrings w/in the
-project. There will be auto-generated documentation soon.
-
->>> from pymongo.connection import Connection
->>> connection = Connection("localhost", 27017)
->>> db = connection.test
->>> db.name()
-u'test'
-
->>> db.my_collection
-Collection(Database(Connection('localhost', 27017), u'test'),
-u'my_collection')
-
->>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 10})
-ObjectId('\x03\x1c\x06\x8d|\x9d}O\x8b\xaf!\xa0')
-
->>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 8})
-ObjectId('\x18\x1f\xa4lOV&\x0bH\xf9%A')
-
->>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 11})
-ObjectId('R\xa3\x85p\xc3m=\xe5\x0e*\x1d\xa7')
-
->>> db.my_collection.find_one()
-SON([(u'x', 10), (u'_id',
-ObjectId('\x03\x1c\x06\x8d|\x9d}O\x8b\xaf!\xa0'))])
-
->>> for item in db.my_collection.find():
-...     print item["x"]
-...
-10
-8
-11
-
->>> from pymongo.database import ASCENDING
->>> db.my_collection.create_index("x", ASCENDING)
->>> for item in db.my_collection.find().sort("x", ASCENDING):
-...     print item["x"]
-...
-8
-10
-11
-
->>> [item["x"] for item in db.my_collection.find().limit(2).skip(1)]
-[8, 11]
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+=======
+PyMongo
+=======
+:Info: See `the mongo site <http://www.mongodb.org>`_ for more information. See `github <http://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tree>`_ for the latest source.
+:Author: Mike Dirolf <mike@10gen.com>
+:Date: $Date: 2009-01-22$
+:Description: README file for the PyMongo distribution
+
+About
+=====
+The ``pymongo`` module is a native Python driver for the Mongo database.
+
+Installation
+============
+If you have `setuptools <http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools>`_ installed you should be able to do ``easy_install pymongo`` to install PyMongo. Otherwise you can download the project source and do ``python setup.py install`` to install.
+
+Dependencies
+============
+- `ElementTree <http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm>`_
+- (to generate documentation) `epydoc <http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/>`_
+
+Example
+=======
+>>> from pymongo.connection import Connection
+>>> connection = Connection("localhost", 27017)
+>>> db = connection.test
+>>> db.name()
+u'test'
+>>> db.my_collection
+Collection(Database(Connection('localhost', 27017), u'test'),
+u'my_collection')
+>>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 10})
+ObjectId('\x03\x1c\x06\x8d|\x9d}O\x8b\xaf!\xa0')
+>>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 8})
+ObjectId('\x18\x1f\xa4lOV&\x0bH\xf9%A')
+>>> db.my_collection.save({"x": 11})
+ObjectId('R\xa3\x85p\xc3m=\xe5\x0e*\x1d\xa7')
+>>> db.my_collection.find_one()
+SON([(u'x', 10), (u'_id',
+ObjectId('\x03\x1c\x06\x8d|\x9d}O\x8b\xaf!\xa0'))])
+>>> for item in db.my_collection.find():
+...     print item["x"]
+...
+10
+8
+11
+>>> from pymongo.database import ASCENDING
+>>> db.my_collection.create_index("x", ASCENDING)
+>>> for item in db.my_collection.find().sort("x", ASCENDING):
+...     print item["x"]
+...
+8
+10
+11
+>>> [item["x"] for item in db.my_collection.find().limit(2).skip(1)]
+[8, 11]
+
+Documentation
+=============
+Documentation can be generated by running ``epydoc --config=epydoc-config``.
+
+Testing
+=======
+The easiest way to run the tests is to install `nose <http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/>`_ and run ``nosetests`` in the root of the distribution. Tests are located in the ``test/`` directory.