💎Extra Pill of the Week
Welcome back to the newsletter! In our last full edition, we explored how NoSQL databases like MongoDB handle data, and we even used Python to insert and retrieve records. If you paid close attention to the code, you might have noticed something interesting: the data we sent to MongoDB looked exactly like a standard Python dictionary.
It is incredibly easy to blur the lines between the two, especially when you are using a library like PyMongo that seamlessly bridges the gap. However, assuming a Python dictionary and a MongoDB Document are exactly the same thing can lead to some tricky bugs down the road.
Today, we are popping the hood to look at the subtle but crucial differences between your Python dictionaries and MongoDB’s underlying document structure.
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