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The $in operator

With the $in operator, you can find documents with fields that have one of the specified values. The $in operator works both for fields that have single values, as well as arrays, like the genre field.

The first document in the collection has been printed for you to refresh your memory on the fields in the movies collection.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to MongoDB in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Find the first movie that has a release year of 2010 or 2011 and store the result as tens.
  • Find the first movie that has a genre of "action" or "comedy" and store the result as bang.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Find movie that has release_year 2010 or 2011
tens = mov.find_one(____)
print(tens)

# Find movie that has genre "action" or "comedy" 
bang = mov.find_one(____)
print(bang)
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