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Counting genres per movie

The team also wants a quick summary column that counts how many genres are listed for each movie. Use a list expression to create genre_count.

You're still working with the same movies DataFrame.

This exercise is part of the course

Scaling and Optimizing Data Pipelines with Polars

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Exercise instructions

  • Count the number of genres in each row's genres list.
  • Alias the new column as genre_count.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

result = movies.select(
    "movie_title",
    "genres",
    # Count the genres
    pl.col("genres").list.____().alias("____"),
).head(8)
print(result)
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