How to Delete One Document in a Collection in Python

In this example we will show how to delete one document using the delete_one() method in Python MongoDB.

Source Code

from pymongo import MongoClient

client = MongoClient("localhost", 27017)
db = client["mydatabase"]
collection = db["us_state"]

query = {"State_name": "Arizona"}

collection.delete_one(query)

for x in collection.find():
    print(x)

Output:

{'_id': 1, 'State_name': 'Alabama', 'Abbreviation': 'AL', 'Capital': 'Montgomery', 'Total_area': 52420}
{'_id': 2, 'State_name': 'Alaska', 'Abbreviation': 'AK', 'Capital': 'Juneau', 'Total_area': 665384}
{'_id': 4, 'State_name': 'Arkansas', 'Abbreviation': 'AR', 'Capital': 'Little Rock', 'Total_area': 53179}
{'_id': 5, 'State_name': 'California', 'Abbreviation': 'CA', 'Capital': 'Sacramento', 'Total_area': 163695}
{'_id': 6, 'State_name': 'Colorado', 'Abbreviation': 'CO', 'Capital': 'Denver', 'Total_area': 104094}
{'_id': 7, 'State_name': 'Connecticut', 'Abbreviation': 'CT', 'Capital': 'Hartford', 'Total_area': 5543}
{'_id': 8, 'State_name': 'Delaware', 'Abbreviation': 'DE', 'Capital': 'Dover', 'Total_area': 2489}
{'_id': 9, 'State_name': 'Florida', 'Abbreviation': 'FL', 'Capital': 'Tallahassee', 'Total_area': 65758}
{'_id': 10, 'State_name': 'Georgia', 'Abbreviation': 'GA', 'Capital': 'Atlanta', 'Total_area': 59425}