"ImportError: Cannot import name mongoclient" in Windows

Question

I'm calling the following simple script to connect to a mongo database via Python.

I am facing the error while running this below program in windows

import pymongo

from pymongo import Connection
connection = Connection('localhost', 27017)

Here is the below error

C:\Python27>python pymongo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pymongo.py", line 2, in <module>
    import pymongo
  File "C:\Python27\pymongo.py", line 4, in <module>
    from pymongo import MongoClient
ImportError: cannot import name MongoClient

Can somebody please help me on this

Answer 1

You named your script pymongo.py, which masks the pymongo module from which you are importing.

Rename your script to something else (and delete the pymongo.pyc file if one was created next to it).