[Python] How to make connection to mongodb using mongoclient

Background I’m trying to connect from a Python script to my MongoDB Atlas cluster using explicit TLS certificate files (the CA bundle and a client‐certificate/key pair). I downloaded the PEM files from the Atlas UI and want PyMongo to negotiate TLS with those files.

What I’ve Tried

here is my code

from pymongo import MongoClient, errors
from bson.json_util import dumps

# ==== Configuration ====
mongo_uri = (
)
mongo_db =
mongo_collection =

# Paths to your TLS certs
ca_pem = "/Users/you/Downloads/"
client_pem = "/Users/you/Downloads/"

try:
# 1) Establish a TLS‐secured connection
client = MongoClient(
mongo_uri,
tls=True,
tlsCAFile=ca_pem,
tlsCertificateKeyFile=client_pem,
retryWrites=True,
w="majority",
authSource="admin",
authMechanism="SCRAM-SHA-256"
)
db = client[mongo_db]
coll = db[mongo_collection]
print(f"Connected to {mongo_db}.{mongo_collection}\n")

# 2) Fetch and print every document
for doc in coll.find():
# pretty‐print with correct handling of ObjectId, dates, etc.
print(dumps(doc, indent=2))

except errors.PyMongoError as e:
print(f"Error connecting to MongoDB: {e}")


code not working giving tls not found error

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