To find the collections, you can use collection_names() – https://pymongo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/pymongo/database.html#pymongo.database.Database.collection_names
Update:
The collection_names is deprecated from 3.7 onwards and been replaced by list_collection_names() – https://pymongo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api/pymongo/database.html#pymongo.database.Database.list_collection_names