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Inserting multiple documents

Sometimes, you need to add multiple documents at once—instead of calling .insert_one() over and over. MongoDB's .insert_many() lets you do just that.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to MongoDB in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Finalize the definition of new_movies by setting the titles: "wonka" and "m3gan", respectively.
  • Insert the movies into the movies collection of the film database.
  • Print out the auto-generated ids of the newly inserted document.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Complete definition of new_movies
new_movies = [
    {
      "title": ____,
      "genre": ["mystery", "sci-fi"],
      "release_year": 2016, "rating": 7.9
    },
    {
		"title": ____,
		"genre": ["horror", "sci-fi", "thriller"],
		"release_year": 2023, "rating": 6.4
  }
]

# Insert new movies
res = ____

# Print out the auto-generated ids
print(___)
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