After doing a search, I've seen this issue however, they're much more complicated cases. I'm sticking with the basics going through the tutorial and having the same timeout error. In those posts, they suggest using connect=False when using MongoClient but that doesn't seem to help.

Thanks for your time!

Code below:
import pymongo;
from pymongo import MongoClient;
import datetime;

1. Please note that for privacy, I have changed these values. The real values do work from mongo. #
   client = MongoClient(
   host='example.com',
   connect=False,
   ssl=True,
   ssl_keyfile='key.pem',
   ssl_ca_certs='ca.pem'
   );

db = client.test_database;

post =

;

posts = db.posts;

post_id = posts.insert_one(post).inserted_id;

########################
The error is below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "MONGO_CONNECT_ONLY.py", line 26, in <module>
post_id = posts.insert_one(post).inserted_id;
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pymongo\collection.py", line 622, in insert_one with self._socket_for_writes() as sock_info:
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\contextlib.py", line 17, in _enter_
return self.gen.next()
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pymongo\mongo_client.py", line 712, in _get_socket
server = self._get_topology().select_server(selector)
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pymongo\topology.py", line 141, in select_
server
address))
File "C:\Anaconda\lib\site-packages\pymongo\topology.py", line 117, in select_
servers
self._error_message(selector))
pymongo.errors.ServerSelectionTimeoutError: connection closed