The first five prizes with quarter shares
Find the first five prizes with one or more laureates sharing 1/4 of the prize. Project our prize category, year, and laureates' motivations.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to MongoDB in Python
Exercise instructions
- Save to
filter_the filter document to fetch only prizes with one or more quarter-share laureates, i.e. with a "laureates.share" of "4". - Save to
projectionthe list of field names so that prize category, year and laureates' motivations ("laureates.motivation") may be fetched for inspection. - Save to
cursora cursor that will yield prizes, sorted by ascending year. Limit this to five prizes, and sort using the most concise specification.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
from pprint import pprint
# Fetch prizes with quarter-share laureate(s)
filter_ = {____: ____}
# Save the list of field names
projection = [____, ____, ____]
# Save a cursor to yield the first five prizes
cursor = db.prizes.find(filter_, projection).____(____).____(5)
pprint(list(cursor))