pymongo (python+mongodb) drop collection/gridfs?

Question

Anyone know the commands to drop a collection of documents and also drop a gridfs database?

Cameron · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-19 23:06:53Z

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To delete a collection, you can either call the drop() method on it, or use the drop_collection() method on the database object:

my_collection = db['collection_name']
my_collection.drop()

# Or...

db.drop_collection('collection_name')

GridFS files are stored in a collection called fs by default. To delete the GridFS files, just drop that collection:

db.drop_collection('fs')

answered Oct 10, 2010 at 19:19

Cameron

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It might take a while until the effects of this command are visible :-)

In current versions of mongodb, GridFS documents are stored in two collections, 'fs.files', and 'fs.chunks'. You'd want to drop them both.