>> PyMongo's docs seem to make it look like by specifying slave_okay on the
>> Connection, I can connect to a single slave and issue queries against it.
>> That makes it sound like I'm meant to open a "writer" connection (to the
>> master), and n "reader" connections, one to each of my replicas, and then
>> manage distributing queries amongst them all myself.

> This is one approach that will work. There is also a
> MasterSlaveConnection class in PyMongo, which will handle some of this
> automatically, but I expect that that might change somewhat as we work
> to standardize support for this sort of thing across drivers.