python motor mongo cursor length or peek next - pymongo

Question

is there a way of determining the length of the motor mongo cursor or peeking ahead to see if there is a next ( instead of fetch_next perhaps has_next )
and not the cursor.size() that does not take into the provided limit()
basically i desire to add the required json comma
while (yield cursor.fetch_next):
document = cursor.next_object()
print document
if cursor.has_next() # Sweeet
print ","

Answer 1

You can use the "alive" property. Try running this:
from tornado import gen, ioloop
import motor
client = motor.MotorClient()
#gen.coroutine
def f():
collection = client.test.collection
yield collection.drop()
yield collection.insert([{'_id': i} for i in range(100)])
cursor = collection.find()
while (yield cursor.fetch_next):
print cursor.next_object(), cursor.alive
ioloop.IOLoop.current().run_sync(f)
It prints "True" until the final document, when alive is "False".
A MotorCursor fetches data from the server in batches. (The MongoDB documentation on batches explains how cursors and batches work for all MongoDB drivers, including Motor.) When "alive" is True it means either that there is more data available on the server, or data is buffered in the MotorCursor, or both.
There is a race condition, however. Say that you fetch all but the final document, and before you fetch that last document another client deletes it, then you'll fail to find the last document even though "alive" was "True". Better to rearrange your loop:
#gen.coroutine
def f():
collection = client.test.collection
yield collection.drop()
yield collection.insert([{'_id': i} for i in range(100)])
cursor = collection.find()
if (yield cursor.fetch_next):
sys.stdout.write(str(cursor.next_object()))
while (yield cursor.fetch_next):
sys.stdout.write(", ")
sys.stdout.write(str(cursor.next_object()))
print