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A SON object can be used just like a normal Python dictionary.</p> <dl class="class"> <dt id="bson.son.SON"> <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">bson.son.</code><code class="descname">SON</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>data=None</em>, <em>**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>SON data.</p> <p>A subclass of dict that maintains ordering of keys and provides a few extra niceties for dealing with SON. SON provides an API similar to collections.OrderedDict from Python 2.7+.</p> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.clear"> <code class="descname">clear</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → None. Remove all items from D.<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.clear" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.copy"> <code class="descname">copy</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → a shallow copy of D<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.copy" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.get"> <code class="descname">get</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>k</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>d</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → D[k] if k in D, else d. d defaults to None.<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.get" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.has_key"> <code class="descname">has_key</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>k</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → True if D has a key k, else False<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.has_key" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.items"> <code class="descname">items</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → list of D's (key, value) pairs, as 2-tuples<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.items" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.iteritems"> <code class="descname">iteritems</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → an iterator over the (key, value) items of D<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.iteritems" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.iterkeys"> <code class="descname">iterkeys</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → an iterator over the keys of D<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.iterkeys" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.itervalues"> <code class="descname">itervalues</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → an iterator over the values of D<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.itervalues" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.keys"> <code class="descname">keys</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → list of D's keys<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.keys" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.pop"> <code class="descname">pop</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>k</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>d</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → v, remove specified key and return the corresponding value.<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.pop" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>If key is not found, d is returned if given, otherwise KeyError is raised</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.popitem"> <code class="descname">popitem</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → (k, v), remove and return some (key, value) pair as a<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.popitem" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>2-tuple; but raise KeyError if D is empty.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.setdefault"> <code class="descname">setdefault</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>k</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>d</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → D.get(k,d), also set D[k]=d if k not in D<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.setdefault" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.to_dict"> <code class="descname">to_dict</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.to_dict" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Convert a SON document to a normal Python dictionary instance.</p> <p>This is trickier than just <em>dict(…)</em> because it needs to be recursive.</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.update"> <code class="descname">update</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>E</em>, <span class="optional">]</span><em>**F</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → None. Update D from dict/iterable E and F.<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.update" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>If E present and has a .keys() method, does: for k in E: D[k] = E[k] If E present and lacks .keys() method, does: for (k, v) in E: D[k] = v In either case, this is followed by: for k in F: D[k] = F[k]</p> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.son.SON.values"> <code class="descname">values</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span> → list of D's values<a class="headerlink" href="#bson.son.SON.values" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd></dd></dl> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="regex.html" title="previous chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">regex</span></code> – Tools for representing MongoDB regular expressions</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="timestamp.html" title="next chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timestamp</span></code> – Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../../_sources/api/bson/son.rst.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <div class="searchformwrapper"> <form class="search" action="../../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="timestamp.html" title="timestamp – Tools for representing MongoDB internal Timestamps" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="regex.html" title="regex – Tools for representing MongoDB regular expressions" >previous</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="../../index.html">PyMongo 3.7.2 documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../index.html" >API Documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="index.html" ><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bson</span></code> – BSON (Binary JSON) Encoding and Decoding</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright MongoDB, Inc. 2008-present. 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