I have an install of mongo and django setup with virtualenv.

Everything works great until I try to use pymongo to connect to the mongo server.

I get the connection, and I can see the database, but when I run the following test I get unicode errors.

>>> import django
>>> import pymongo
>>> connection = pymongo.Connection("localhost", 27017)
>>> db = connection.test
>>> db.name()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'unicode' object is not callable

I'm not sure what that means or how to fix it. Does anyone have suggestions?

Drop the parens. What the traceback is telling you is that you're trying to call a Unicode string like a function, i.e.:

In [1]: spackle = "wasps"

In [2]: spackle()
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/jsmith/<ipython console> in <module>()

TypeError: 'str' object is not callable

Try typing just:

>>> db.name

The documentation for database.name explains that it was changed to a property instead of a method (maybe recently).

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Thanks.. that was the problem. So my install is work as needed. Sweet.