With Pymongo, how do I insert data from a form in the database?

Question

I'm trying to do something like this:

info = ([request.form['author'], request.form['title'], request.form['text']])  
mongo.db.posts.insert(info, safe=True)

but I get a TypeError:'unicode' object does not support item assignment.

That's the last line in the stack trace:

if not "_id" in son:
    son["_id"] = ObjectId()
    return son

Answer 1

When using Pymongo your document must be a dict, not list.

Try:

info = {"author": request.form['author'], "title": request.form['title'], "text": request.form['text']}

or:

info = {"info": [request.form['author'], request.form['title'], request.form['text']]}

whatever is closer to your idea of model.

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Actually this kind of error is documented for save() and update() methods of collection, but not for insert():

Raises TypeError if to_save is not an instance of dict.

pymongo collection docs