parsing and operating the alexa list

gistfile1.txt

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

a = []

with open('/Users/mlopatka/Documents/backup_downloads/alexa-top-1m.csv', 'rb') as f:
    for line in f:
        if len(line) == 43:
            print(line)
        a.append(len(line)+3)

bins = np.arange(0, 200, 1) # fixed bin size

plt.xlim([min(a)-5, max(a)+5])

plt.hist(a, bins=bins, alpha=0.5)
plt.xlabel('variable X (bin size = 5)')
plt.ylabel('count')

plt.show()