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meet python

Complex data is hard to process

The movie buff’s data is complex. Let’s take another look at a subset of the
data and your Python code that processes it.

The outer, enclosing list
The data

The Holy Grail, 1975, T erry Jones & T erry Gilliam, 91 mins
Graham Chapman

Michael Palin, John Cleese, T erry Gilliam, Eric Idle & T erry Jones

Another inner (inner), nested list
An inner, nested list

Your code Process the inner,
Process the outer, enclosing list. nested list.

Yeah.. that’s almost
working...it’s just a
for each_item in movies: pity about that list of
if isinstance(each_item, list): supporting actors...
for nested_item in each_item:
print(nested_item)
else:
print(each_item)

Can you spot the problem with your Python
code as it is currently written? What do you
think needs to happen to your code to allow it to
process the movie buff’s data correctly?

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