Intended Audience
- Developers
License
- OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Development Status
- 4 - Beta
Natural Language
- English
Programming Language
- Python
- Python :: Implementation :: CPython
Operating System
- MacOS :: MacOS X
- Unix
- Info:
Motor is a full-featured, non-blocking MongoDB driver for Python Tornado applications.
- Author:
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
About
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
Issues / Questions / Feedback
Any 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 on jira in the “MOTOR” project.
Installation
$ pip install motor
Dependencies
Motor works in all the environments officially supported by Tornado. It requires:
See “Requirements” for details about compatibility.
Documentation
You will need sphinx installed to generate the documentation. Documentation can be generated by running cd doc; make html. Generated documentation can be found in doc/build/html/. You can read the current docs at ReadTheDocs.
Examples
See the examples on ReadTheDocs or Chirp, a dumb Twitter clone.
Testing
Run python setup.py test. Tests are located in the test/ directory. In Python 2.6, unittest2 is automatically installed.