PCAP – Programming Essentials in Python Quizzes

Final Test Answers

1. The meaning of the keyword argument is determined by:
 its position within the argument list
 its value
 its connection with existing variables
 the argument’s name specified along with its value
2. Which of the following sentences is true?

str1 = ‘string’
str2 = str1[:]
 str1 and str2 are different (but equal) strings
 str2 is longer than str1
 “>str1 and str2 are different names of the same string
 str1 is longer than str2
3. An operator able to check whether two values are equal, is
coded as:
 =
 ==
 ===
 is
4. The following snippet:
def f(par2,par1):
return par2 + par1
print(f(par2=1,2))
 will output 2
 will output 3
 will output 1
 is erroneous
5. What value will be assigned to the x variable?
z = 2
y = 1
x = y < z or z > y and y > z or z < y
 0
 True
 1
 False
6. What will be the output of the following snippet?
str = ‘abcdef’
def fun(s):
del s[2]
return s
print(fun(str))
 abcef
 the program will cause an error
  abdef
 acdef
7. What will be the output of the following piece of code?
x, y, z = 3, 2, 1
z, y, x = x, y, z
print(x,y,z)

 213
 123
 122
 321
8. What will be the output of the following snippet?
a = True
b = False
a = a or b
b = a and b
a = a or b
print(a,b)
 True False
 True True
 False False
 False True
9. What will be the output of the following snippet?
def fun(x):
return 1 if x % 2 != 0 else 2
print(fun(fun(1)))
 2
 the code will cause a runtime error
 1
 None
10. What will be the output of the following line?

print(len((1,)))
 0
 the code is erroneous
 2
 1
11. What will be the output of the following piece of code?
d = { 1:0, 2:1, 3:2, 0:1 }
x = 0
for y in range(len(d)):
x = d[x]
print(x)
 the code will cause a runtime error
 2
 0
 1
12. What will be the output of the following piece of code:
y=input()
x=input()
print(x+y)
if the user enters two lines containing 1 and 2 respectively?
 21
 12
 2
 3
13. What will be the output of the following piece of code?
print(“a”,”b”,”c”,sep=”‘”)
 a’b’c
 abc
 abc
 the code is erroneous
14. What will be the output of the following piece of code?
v = 1 + 1 // 2 + 1 / 2 + 2
print(v)
 4.0
 3.5
 3
 4
15. What will be the output of the following code?
t = (1,)
t = t[0] + t[0]
print(t)
 (1,)
 1
 (1, 1)
 2
16. What will be the output of the following piece of code?
x = 16
while x > 0:
print(‘*’,end=”)
x //= 2
 *****
 ***
 *
 the code will enter an infinite loop
17. What will be the output of the following snippet?
d = { ‘one’:1, ‘three’:3, ‘two’:2 }
for k in sorted(d.values()):
print(k,end=’ ‘)
 123
 321
 231
 321
18. What will be the output of the following snippet?
print(len([i for i in range(0,-2)]))
 0
 2
 3
 1
19. Which of the following lines properly invokes the
function defined as:
def fun(a,b,c=0)?
 fun(0):
 fun(b=0,b=0):
 fun(1,c=2):
 fun(a=1,b=0,c=0):
20. What will be the output of the following snippet?
l = [1,2,3,4]
l = list(map(lambda x: 2*x,l))
print(l)
 10
 the snippet will cause a runtime error
 1234
 2468
21. How many stars will the following snippet send to the
console?
i = 4
while i > 0 :
i -= 2
print(“*”)
if i == 2:
break
else:
print(“*”)
 2
 0
 1
 the snippet will enter an infinite loop
22. What will be the output of the following snippet?
t = (1, 2, 3, 4)
t = t[-2:-1]
t = t[-1]
print(t)
 33
 (3)
 3
 (3,)
23. What will be the output of the following snippet?
d = {}
d[‘2’] = [1,2]
 d[‘1’] = [3,4]
for x in d.keys():
print(d[x][1],end=””)
 24
 13
 42
 31
24. What will be the output of the following snippet?
def fun(d,k,v):
d[k]=v
dc = {}
print(fun(dc,’1′,’v’))
 None
 1
 the snippet is erroneous
 v
25. How many empty lines will the following snippet send to
the console?
l = [[c for c in range(r)] for r in range(3)]
for x in l:
if len(x) < 2:
print()
 1
 0
 2
 3
26. Knowing that the function named m() resides in the
module named f, and the code contains the following import
statement, choose the right way to invoke the function:
from m import f
 the import statement is invalid
 mod.fun()
 mod:fun()
 fun()
27. The package directory/folder may contain a file intended
to initialize the package. Its name is:
 __init__.py
 init.py
 __init.py__
 __init__.
28. The folder created by Python used to store pyc files is
named:
 __pycfiles__
 __pyc__
 __pycache__
 __cache__
29. What will be the output of the following code, located in
the file module.py?
print(__name__)
 main
 __module.py__
 module.py
 __main__
30. If you want to tell your module’s users that a particular
variable should not be accessed directly, you may:
 start its name with a capital letter
 use its number instead of its name
 start its name with _ or __
 build its name with lowercase letters only
31. If there is a finally: branch inside the try: block, we
can say that:
 it won’t be executed if no exception is raised
 it will always be executed
 branches is executed
 it will be executed when there is no else: branch
32. What will be the output of the following snippet?
try:
raise Exception
except BaseException:
print(“a”,end=”)
else:
print(“b”,end=”)
finally:
print(“c”)
 a
 ab
 bc
 ac
33. What will be the output of the following snippet?
class A:
def __init__(self,name):
self.name = name
a = A(“class”)
print(a)
 a number
 a string ending with a long hexadecimal number
 class
 name
34. What will be the output of the following snippet?
try:
raise Exception
except:
print(“c”)
 except BaseException:
print(“a”)
except Exception:
print(“b”)
 it will an cause error
 b
 c
 a
35. What will be the output of the following snippet?
class X:
pass
class Y(X):
pass
class Z(Y):
pass
x = X()
z = Z()
print(isinstance(x,Z),isinstance(z,X))
 False False
 True True
 True False
 False True
36. The following code prints:
x = “\”
print(len(x))

 1
 the code will cause an error
 2
 3
37. The following code prints:
x = “””
“””
print(len(x))

 2
 1
 the code will cause an error
 3
38. If the class constructor is declared as below, which one
of the assignments is valid?
class Class:
def __init__(self):
pass
 object = Class(None)
  object = Class(1)
 object = Class(1,2)
 object = Class()

39. What will be the output of the following code?

class A:
A = 1
def __init__(self,v = 2):
self.v = v + A.A
A.A += 1
def set(self,v):
self.v += v
A.A += 1
return
a = A()
a.set(2)
print(a.v)
 7
 5
 1
 3
40. What will be the output of the following code?
class A:
A = 1
def __init__(self):
self.a = 0
print(hasattr(A,’A’))

 True
 0
 1
 False
41. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class A:
pass
class B:
pass
class C(A,B):
pass
print(issubclass(C,A) and issubclass(C,B))
 it will print True
 it will raise an exception
 it will print an empty line
 it will print False
42. The sys.stdout stream is normally associated with:
 the screen
 a null device
 the keyboard
 the printer
43. What will be the effect of running the following code?
class A:
def __init__(self,v):
self._a = v + 1
a = A(0)
print(a._a)
 it will print 0
 it will print 1
 it will print 2
 it will raise an AttributeError exception
44. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class A:
def __init__(self):
pass
def f(self):
return 1
def g():
return self.f()
a = A()
print(a.g())
 it will print 0
 it will print True
 it will print 1
 it will raise an exception
45. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class A:
def a(self):
print(‘a’)
class B:
def a(self):
print(‘b’)
class C(A,B):
def c(self):
self.a()
o = C()
o.c()

 it will print b
 it will print a
 it will raise an exception
 it will print c
46. The Exception class contains a property named args,
and it is a:
 string
 tuple
 list
 dictionary
47. What will be the result of executing the following code?
 def I(n):
s = ”
for i in range(n):
s += ‘*’
yield s
for x in I(3):
print(x,end=”)
 it will print ***
 it will print ****
 it will print *
 it will print ******
48. What will be the result of executing the following code?
def a(x):
def b():
return x + x
return b
x = a(‘x’)
y = a(”)
print(x() + y())

 it will print xxxxxx

 it will print x
 it will print xx
 it will print xxxx
49. If s is a stream opened in read mode, the following line
q = s.readlines()

will assign q as a:
 string
 dictionary
 list
 tuple
50. If you want to write a byte array’s content to a stream,
you’d use:
 the write() method
 writebytearray() method
 the writefrom() method
 writeto() method