Using match

def get_db(db_name):
	from pymongo import MongoClient
	client = MongoClient('localhost:27017')
	db = client[db_name]
	return db

def make_pipeline():
	pipeline = [ ]
	return pipeline

def aggregate(db, pipeline):
	return [doc for doc in db.tweets.aggregate(pipeline)]

if __name__ == '__main__':
	db = get_db('twitter')
	pipeline = make_pipeline()
	result = aggregate(db, pipeline)
	import pprint
	assert len(result) == 1
	assert result[0]["followers"] == 17209