PCAP – Programming Essentials in Python Quizzes Summary Test 2 Answers

1. Knowing that a function named f() resides in a module named m, and was imported using the following statement
from mod import fun
choose the right way to invoke it:
 fun()
 mod.fun()
 mod::fun()
 mod:fun()
2. What output will appear after running the following snippet?
import math
print(dir(math))
 an error message
 a string containing the fully qualified name of the module
 a list of all the entities residing in the math module
 the number of all the entities residing in the math module
3. The compiled Python bytecode is stored in files having names ending with:
 py
 pyb
 pc
 pyc
4. Assuming that all three files, a.py, b.py, and c.py reside in the same folder, what will be the output produced by
running the c.py file?
# file a.py
print(“a”,end=”)

#file b.py
import a
print(“b”,end=”)

#file c.py
print(“c”,end=”)
import a
import b
 cba
 abc
 bac
 cab
5. What will be the output of the following code, located in file p.py?
print(__name__)
 p.py
 main
 __p.py__
 __main__
6. The following statement
from a.b import c
causes the import of:
 entity a from module b from package c
 entity b from module a from package c
 entity c from module b from package a
 entity c from module a from package b
7. If there are more than one except: branches after the try:, we can say that:
 one or more of the try: blocks will be executed
 none of the try: blocks will be executed
 not more than one try: block will be executed
 exactly one of the try: blocks will be executed
8. What will be the output of the following snippet? try: raise Exception
except BaseException:
print(“a”)
except Exception:
print(“b”)
except:
print(“c”)
 c
 b
  it will cause an error
 a
9. The following line of code:

for line in open(‘text.txt’,’rt’):

 is valid as open returns an iterable object
 is invalid as open returns a non-iterable object
 is invalid as open returns nothing
 may be valid if line is a list
10. What will be the output of the following snippet?
try:
raise Exception
except:
print(“c”)
except BaseException:
print(“a”)
except Exception:
print(“b”)
 a
 c
 b
 it will cause an error
11. The following statement:
assert var != 0
 will stop the program when var == 0
 is erroneous
 has no effect
 will stop the program when var != 0
12. The following code prints:
x = “\\\\”
print(len(x))
 2
 1
 3
 the code will cause an error
13. The following code prints:
x = “\\\”
print(len(x))
 3
 the code will cause an error
 1
 2
14. The following code prints:
print(chr(ord(‘p’) + 2))
 s
 t
 q
 r
15. The following code:
print(float(“1.3”))
 raises a ValueError exception
 prints 13
 prints 1,3
 1.3
16. If the class’s constructor is declared as below, which one of the assignments is invalid?
class Class:
def __init__(self,val=0):
pass
 object = Class(None)
 object = Class(1)
 object = Class()
 object = Class(1,2)
17. What will be output of the following code?
 class A:
def __init__(self,v = 2):
self.v = v
def set(self,v = 1):
self.v += v
return self.v
a = A()
b=a
b.set()
print(a.v)
 0
 3
 1
 2
18. What will be output of the following code?
class A:
A=1
def __init__(self):
self.a = 0
print(hasattr(A,’a’))
 1
 False
 0
 True
19. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class A:
pass
class B(A):
pass
class C(B):
pass
print(issubclass(A,C))
 it will print False
 it will print True
 it will print 1
 it will raise an exception
20. The sys.stderr stream is normally associated with:
 the keyboard
 a null device
 the screen
 the printer
21. 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 1
 it will print 2
 it will raise an AttributeError exception
 it will print 0
22. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class A:
def __init__(self):
pass
a = A(1)
print(hasattr(a,’A’))
 it will print True
 it will raise an exception
 it will print False
 it will print 1
23. 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(B,A):
def c(self):
self.a()
o = C()
o.c()
 it will print c
 it will raise an exception
 it will print b
 it will print a
24. What will be the result of executing the following code?
try:
raise Exception(1,2,3)
except Exception as e:
print(len(e.args))
 it will print 2
 it will print 1
 it will raise an unhandled exception
 it will print 3
25. What will be the result of executing the following code?
def I(n):
s = ‘+’
for i in range(n):
s += s
yield s
for x in I(2):
print(x,end=”)
 it will print ++
 it will print ++++++
 it will print +
 it will print +++
26. What will be the result of executing the following code?
class I:
def __init__(self):
self.s = ‘abc’
self.i = 0
def __iter__(self):
return self
def __next__(self):
if self.i == len(self.s):
raise StopIteration
v = self.s[self.i]
self.i += 1
return v
for x in I():
print(x,end=”)
 012
 abc
 cba
 210
27. What will be the result of executing the following code?
def o(p):
def q():
return ‘*’ * p
return q
r = o(1)
s = o(2)
print(r() + s())

 it will print ****

 it will print **
 it will print ***
 it will print *
28. If s is a stream opened in read mode, the following line will:
q = s.read(1)
 read 1 character from the stream
 read 1 kilobyte from the stream
 read 1 line from the stream
 read 1 buffer from the stream
29. Assuming that the open() invocation has gone successfully, the following snippet will:
for x in open(‘file’,’rt’):
print(x)
 read the file character by character
 cause an exception
 read the whole file at once
 read the file line by line
30. If you want to fill a byte array with data read in from a stream, you’d use:
 the readinto() method
 the read() method
 the readbytes() method
 the readfrom() method