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To delete one document, we use the delete_one() method. The first parameter of the delete_one() method is a query object defining which document to delete.
If the query finds more than one document, only the first occurrence is deleted.
Delete the document with the address "Mountain 21":
Formula
import pymongo myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
mydb = myclient["mydatabase"]
mycol = mydb["customers"]myquery = { "address": "Mountain 21" }
mycol.delete_one(myquery)To delete more than one document, use the delete_many() method. The first parameter of the delete_many() method is a query object defining which documents to delete.
Delete all documents were the address starts with the letter S:
Formula
import pymongo myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
mydb = myclient["mydatabase"]
mycol = mydb["customers"]myquery = { "address": {"$regex": "^S"} }Formula
x = mycol.delete_many(myquery)print(x.deleted_count, " documents deleted.")To delete all documents in a collection, pass an empty query object to the delete_many() method:
Delete all documents in the "customers" collection:
Formula
import pymongo myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
mydb = myclient["mydatabase"]
mycol = mydb["customers"]x = mycol.delete_many({})
print(x.deleted_count, " documents deleted.")