Exercise 6: How to retrieve the CSV files without unzipping them?

[engxinqian]

@danielbeach Thanks for the exercises, they have been super helpful.

A question on Exercise 6, there is this bit of instruction:

There is a folder called data in this current directory, Exercises/Exercise-6. Inside this folder there are two .zip'd csv files, they should remain zipped for the duration of this exercise.

For the second part of the quote, how do you extract the csv files without unzipping them? So far all the approaches I thought of is unzipping the zip file, which contradicts the problem statement. Unless I am misinterpreting the instruction?

Would like to get some hint on how to access the csv file without unzipping them.

[AlexyCz]

hi there @engxinqian! Just someone else going along with the exercises, and maybe what is meant to be interpreted (at least how I have approached it) is to unzip in memory, given accessing the data without unzipping is rather paradoxical 😄. I think the instruction stems from the earlier exercises where it was valid to unzip to disk and read in. Hope I'm not totally off on this @danielbeach