"The data on the incidence of influenza-like illness are available from the Web site of the [Réseau Sentinelles](http://www.sentiweb.fr/). We download them as a file in CSV format, in which each line corresponds to a week in the observation period. Only the complete dataset, starting in 1984 and ending with a recent week, is available for download."
"The data on the incidence of influenza-like illness are available from the Web site of the [Réseau Sentinelles](http://www.sentiweb.fr/). We download them as a file in CSV format, in which each line corresponds to a week in the observation period. Only the complete dataset, starting in 1984 and ending with a recent week, is available for download."
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"In order to protect us in case the Réseau Sentinelles Web server disappears or is modified, we make a local copy of this dataset that we store together with our analysis. It is unnecessary and even risky to download the data at each execution, because in case of a malfunction we might be replacing our file by a corrupted version. Therefore we download the data only if no local copy exists."
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"os.path.exists(data_file)"
"os.path.exists(data_file)"
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"Seeks data from dowloaded file instead of seeking to download the data from theSentinelles site everytime. Robust to site being down, data being updated..."