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Motor is a full-featured, non-blocking MongoDB driver for Python Tornado applications.

Author

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

Motor presents a Tornado_callback- or Future-based API for non-blocking access to MongoDB. The source is on GitHub and the docs are on ReadTheDocs.

"Motor uses a clever greenlet-based approach to fully support both synchronous and asynchronous interfaces from a single codebase. It's great to see companies like MongoDB produce first-party asynchronous drivers for their products."

--Ben Darnell, Tornado maintainer

$ pip install motor

Motor works in all the environments officially supported by Tornado. It requires:

• Unix, including Mac OS X. Windows is not supported.
• PyMongo
• Tornado
• Greenlet
• Python 2.6 or later.
• backports.pbkdf2 for faster authentication with MongoDB 3.0+, especially on Python older than 2.7.8, or on Python 3 before Python 3.4.

See "Requirements" for details about compatibility.

Issues with, questions about, or feedback for Motor should be sent to the mongodb-user list on Google Groups.

For confirmed issues or feature requests, open a case in Jira in the "MOTOR" project. Please include all of the following information:

• Detailed steps to reproduce the problem, including your code and a full traceback, if possible.
• What you expected to happen, and what actually happened.

• The exact python version used, with patch level:

  $ python -c "import sys; print(sys.version)"

• The exact version of PyMongo used, with patch level:

  $ python -c "import pymongo; print(pymongo.version); print(pymongo.has_c())"

• The exact Tornado version:

  $ python -c "import tornado; print(tornado.version)"

• The operating system and version (e.g. RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.4, OSX 10.9.5, ...)

Motor's documentation is on ReadTheDocs.

To build the documentation, install sphinx and do cd doc; make html.

See the examples on ReadTheDocs.

Run python setup.py test. Tests are located in the test/ directory. In Python 2.6, unittest2 is automatically installed.