Removing _id element from Pymongo results

Above answer fails if we want specific fields and still ignore _id. Use the following in such cases:

db.collection.find({'required_column_A':1,'required_col_B':1, '_id': False})

To exclude the _id field in a find query in pymongo, you can use:

db.collection.find({}, {'_id': False})

The documentation is somewhat missleading on this as it says the _id field is always included. But you can exclude it like shown above.