Pymongo Cursor Rewind

I was doing the some coding in Python with PyMongo. Task is to get the collection of documents from mongoDB and perform different operation on the fetched documents.

def process():
    process = db.test_collection.find({user_email: user_email})

    for each in process:
        call_first_operation(each)

    # Below for loop never executed.
    for each in process:
		    call_second_operation(each)

I wonder why the second for loop is not working. It took me awhile to realise that mongoDB collection fetched one time only.

Like read() this operation is one time only. If we need the document again we need to fetch it again.

So what’s the story about rewind ?

This rewind help fetch the same collection of documents without you writing queries.

Here is the modified code that re-fetch the collection.

def process():
    process = db.test_collection.find({user_email: user_email})

    for each in process:
        call_first_operation(each)

    for each in process.rewind():
		    call_second_operation(each)