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method to sort the result in ascending or descending order.
method takes one parameter for "fieldname" and one parameter for "direction" (ascending is the default direction).
Sort the result alphabetically by name:
Formula
import pymongo myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
mydb = myclient["mydatabase"]
mycol = mydb["customers"]
mydoc = mycol.find().sort("name")
for x in mydoc:print(x)Formula
Use the value - 1 as the second parameter to sort descending.sort("name", 1) #ascending sort("name", -1) #descending
Sort the result reverse alphabetically by name:
Formula
import pymongo myclient = pymongo.MongoClient("mongodb://localhost:27017/")
mydb = myclient["mydatabase"]
mycol = mydb["customers"]
mydoc = mycol.find().sort("name", - 1)
for x in mydoc:print(x)