How to make pymongo's find() return a list?

Question

Pymongo returns a cursor with it I am able to iterate over the results and append their documents to a list. Is there a way to get the result documents in a list directly? Thanks

Answer 1

The following code will convert the entire result set (Cursor) into a list:

myresults = list(mydb.mycollection.find())

This is fine for relatively small result sets, as you are pulling everything into memory.