Download and Install

Install Dependencies

Ensure you have the following dependencies installed in your development environment:

• Python3 version 3.8 or later

• pip

• dnspython

Create a Project Directory

In your shell, run the following command to create a directory called pymongo-quickstart for this project:

mkdir pymongo-quickstart

Select the tab corresponding to your operating system and run the following commands to create a quickstart.py application file in the pymongo-quickstart directory:

cd pymongo-quickstart
touch quickstart.py

cd pymongo-quickstart
type nul > quickstart.py

Install PyMongo

Select the tab corresponding to your operating system and run the following commands to create and activate a virtual environment in which to install the driver:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

python3 -m venv venv
. venv\Scripts\activate

With the virtual environment activated, run the following command to install the current version of PyMongo:

python3 -m pip install pymongo