IMDB_exercise.ipynb

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    "# Exercise 1:  IMDB csv data\n",
    "\n",
    "## Challenge: Using the file \"resources/imdb.csv\", find out whether Action movies are better or worse than Romance movies.\n",
    "\n",
    "**Complication**: the csv file (an excerpt from one used in a Kaggle challenge) has a slightly unusual format - commas in text fields are escaped by a \"\\\\\" character.  This might upset your csv parser."
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    "First, lets check the file is there, and how many rows it has:"
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      "4000\n"
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    "import os\n",
    "filename = \"resources/imdb.csv\"\n",
    "if not os.path.exists(filename):\n",
    "    print(\"Not there!\")\n",
    "else:\n",
    "    print(len(open(filename).readlines()))"
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