title: Why do I get a pymongo.cursor.Cursor when trying to query my mongodb db via pymongo?
body: <p>I have consumed a bunch of tweets in a mongodb database. I would like to query these tweets using pymongo. For example, I would like to query for screen_name. However, when I try to do this, python does not return a tweet but a message about pymongo.cursor.Cursor. Here is my code:   </p>
  
  <pre><code>import sys
  import pymongo
  from pymongo import Connection
  connection = Connection()
  db = connection.test
  tweets = db.tweets
  list(tweets.find())[:1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get a JSON, which looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{u'_id': ObjectId('51c8878fadb68a0b96c6ebf1'),
   u'contributors': None,
   u'coordinates': {u'coordinates': [-75.24692983, 43.06183036],
    u'type': u'Point'},
   u'created_at': u'Mon Jun 24 17:53:19 +0000 2013',
   u'entities': {u'hashtags': [],
    u'symbols': [],
    u'urls': [],
    u'user_mentions': []},
   u'favorite_count': 0,
   u'favorited': False,
   u'filter_level': u'medium',
   u'geo': {u'coordinates': [43.06183036, -75.24692983], u'type': u'Point'},
   u'id': 349223725943623680L,
   u'id_str': u'349223725943623680',
   u'in_reply_to_screen_name': None,
   u'in_reply_to_status_id': None,
   u'in_reply_to_status_id_str': None,
   u'in_reply_to_user_id': None,
   u'in_reply_to_user_id_str': None,
   u'lang': u'en',
   u'place': {u'attributes': {},
    u'bounding_box': {u'coordinates': [[[-79.76259, 40.477399],
       [-79.76259, 45.015865],
       [-71.777491, 45.015865],
       [-71.777491, 40.477399]]],
     u'type': u'Polygon'},
    u'country': u'United States',
    u'country_code': u'US',
    u'full_name': u'New York, US',
    u'id': u'94965b2c45386f87',
    u'name': u'New York',
    u'place_type': u'admin',
    u'url': u'http://api.twitter.com/1/geo/id/94965b2c45386f87.json'},
   u'retweet_count': 0,
   u'retweeted': False,
   u'source': u'&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/download/iphone" rel="nofollow"&gt;Twitter for iPhone&lt;/a&gt;',
   u'text': u'Currently having a heat stroke',
   u'truncated': False,
   u'user': {u'contributors_enabled': False,
    u'created_at': u'Fri Oct 28 02:04:05 +0000 2011',
    u'default_profile': False,
    u'default_profile_image': False,
    u'description': u'young and so mischievious',
    u'favourites_count': 1798,
    u'follow_request_sent': None,
    u'followers_count': 368,
    u'following': None,
    u'friends_count': 335,
    u'geo_enabled': True,
    u'id': 399801173,
    u'id_str': u'399801173',
    u'is_translator': False,
    u'lang': u'en',
    u'listed_count': 0,
    u'location': u'Upstate New York',
    u'name': u'Joe Catanzarita',
    u'notifications': None,
    u'profile_background_color': u'D6640D',
    u'profile_background_image_url':           u'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/702001815/f87508e73bbfab8c8c85ebe10b29fcf6.png',
    u'profile_background_image_url_https':     u'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/702001815/f87508e73bbfab8c8c85ebe10b29fcf6.png',
    u'profile_background_tile': True,
    u'profile_banner_url': u'https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/399801173/1367200323',
    u'profile_image_url':     u'http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000012256721/d8b5f801fb331de6ead4aed42dc77a46_normal.jpeg',
    u'profile_image_url_https':   u'https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000012256721/d8b5f801fb331de6ead4aed42dc77a46_normal.jpeg'    ,
    u'profile_link_color': u'140DE0',
    u'profile_sidebar_border_color': u'FFFFFF',
    u'profile_sidebar_fill_color': u'E0F5A6',
    u'profile_text_color': u'120212',
    u'profile_use_background_image': True,
    u'protected': False,
    u'screen_name': u'JoeCatanzarita',
    u'statuses_count': 6402,
    u'time_zone': u'Quito',
    u'url': None,
    u'utc_offset': -18000,
    u'verified': False}}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, when I try to query for this screen_name, I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tweets.find({"screen_name": "JoeCatanzarita"})
  &lt;pymongo.cursor.Cursor at 0x52c02f0&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And when I then try to count the number of tweets which have "screen_name": "name", I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tweets.find({"screen_name": "name"}).count()
  0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea what I am doing wrong/how I can get pymongo to return the tweets I am looking for?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>