3.

Data Structures in Python

2 Marks
1. Can we delete list elements? Justify your answer.(CO3)
2. Define tuple in python? How to create and access it? (CO3)
3. Compare list and tuple. (CO3)
4. Enlist built in function in dictionaries and explain any two. (CO3)
5. Explain any two built in methods of set in python with example(CO3)

4 Marks
1. Describe basic operations perform on list with example. (CO3)
2. Explain any four built in methods of lists in python with example. (CO3)
3. Explain the basic operations that can be performed on tuple. (CO3)
4. Enlist built in function in tuple and explain any four. (CO3)
5. Explain the basic operations that can be performed on set in python with
suitable example(CO3)
6. Explain the basic dictionaries operations with an example. (CO3)

Descriptive Question:
1. How to declare the list? Can we change or update the list elements? Justify
your answer.
2. Write a short note on slicing list.
3. Explain the following function w.r.t list
a) append() b) insert()
4. Can we delete the list element?
5. Explain the use of keywords del w.r.t list.
6. How to declare the tuple? Can we change or update the tuple? Justify your
answer.
7. How to declare the set? Can we change iterate through set by using while
loop? Justify
your answer.
8. Can we iterate through set by using for loop? Justify your answer.
9. Can we add new elements in set? Justify your answer with example.
10. Explain the following set operations
a) Set union b) Set intersection c) Set symmetric difference
11. How to declare the dictionary in python?
12. Explain use of update() function w.r.t dictionary.
13. Explain how to access dictionary element using index/key with example.
14. Explain different ways and function to remove key:value pair from
dictionary.

MCQ Question:
1. If a={5,6,7}, what happens when a.add(5) is executed?

a) a={5,5,6,7}

b) a={5,6,7}

c) Error as there is no add function for set data type

d) Error as 5 already exists in the set

2. Which of the following statements is used to create an empty set?

a) { } b) set()

c) [ ] d) ( )

3. Which of the following is not the correct syntax for creating a set?

a) set([[1,2],[3,4]]) b) set([1,2,2,3,4])

c) set((1,2,3,4)) d) {1,2,3,4}

4. Which of these about a set is not true?

a) Mutable data type b) Allows duplicate values

c) Data type with unordered values d) Immutable data type

5. Which of the following is a Python tuple?

a) [1, 2, 3] b) (1, 2, 3)

c) {1, 2, 3} d) {}

6. What will be the output of the following Python code?

>>>t[1:3]

a) (1, 2) b) (1, 2, 4)

c) (2, 4) d) (2, 4, 3)

7. What type of data is: a=[(1,1),(2,4),(3,9)]?

a) Array of tuples b) List of tuples

c) Tuples of lists d) Invalid type

8. What will be the output of the following Python code?

>>> a=(0,1,2,3,4)

>>> b=slice(0,2)

>>>a[b]

a) Invalid syntax for slicing b) [0,2]

c) (0,1) d) (0,2)

9. Is the following Python code valid?

>>> a=(1,2,3,4)

>>>del a

a) No because tuple is immutable

b) Yes, first element in the tuple is deleted

c) Yes, the entire tuple is deleted

d) No, invalid syntax for del method

10. What will be the output of the following Python code?

>>> a=(2,3,4)

>>>sum(a,3)

a) Too many arguments for sum() method c) 12

11. What will be the output of the following Python code?

>>> a=("Check")*3

>>>a

a) (‘Check’,’Check’,’Check’) b) * Operator not valid for tuples

c) (‘CheckCheckCheck’) d) Syntax error

12. If a=(1,2,3,4), a[1:-1] is ___

a) Error, tuple slicing doesn’t exist b) [2,3]

c) (2,3,4) d) (2,3)

13. What will be the output of the following Python code?

>>> a=(2,3,1,5)

>>>a.sort()

>>>a

a) (1,2,3,5) b) (2,3,1,5)

c) None d) Error, tuple has no attribute sort

14. The ____ function removes the first element of a set and the last element of
a list.

a) remove b) pop

c) discard d) dispose

15. The difference between the functions discard and remove is that:

a) Discard removes the last element of the set whereas remove removes the first

element of the set

b) Discard throws an error if the specified element is not present in the set
whereas

remove does not throw an error in case of absence of the specified element
c) Remove removes the last element of the set whereas discard removes the first

element of the set

d) Remove throws an error if the specified element is not present in the set

whereas discard does not throw an error in case of absence of the specified

element

16. If we have two sets, s1 and s2, and we want to check if all the elements of s1
are present

in s2 or not, we can use the function:

a) s2.issubset(s1) b) s2.issuperset(s1)

c) s1.issuperset(s2) d) s1.isset(s2)

17. What will be the output of the following Python code,

if s1= {1, 2, 3}?

s1.issubset(s1)

a) True b) Error

c) No output d) False

18. Which of the following functions will return the symmetric difference
between two sets,

x and y?

a) x | y b) x ^ y

c) x& y d) x – y

19. What will be the output of the following Python code snippet?

z=set('abc')

z.add('san')

z.upd ate(set(['p', 'q']))

z
a) {‘abc’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘san’} b) {‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, [‘p’, ‘q’], ‘san}

c) {‘a’, ‘c’, ‘c’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘n’} d) {‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘p’, ‘q’, ‘san’}

20. Suppose there is a list such that: l=[2,3,4]. If we want to print this list in
reverse order,

which of the following methods should be used?

a) reverse(l) b) list(reverse[(l)])

c) reversed(l) d) list(reversed(l))

21. Which of the following functions will not result in an error when no
arguments are

passed to it?

a) min() b) divmod()

c) all() d) float()

22. Which of the following functions does not throw an error?

a) ord() b) ord(‘ ‘)

c) ord(“) d) ord(“”)

23. What will be the output of the following Python function?

len(["hello",2, 4, 6])

a) 4 b) 3

c) Error d) 6

24. The function pow(x,y,z) is evaluated as:

a) (x*y)*z b) (x**y) / z

c) (x**y) % z d) (x**y)*z

25. What will be the output of the following Python function?

all([2,4,0,6])

a) Error b) True
c) False d) 0

26. What will be the output of the following Python function?

import math

abs(math.sqrt(25))

a) Error b) -5

c) 5 d) 5.0

27. What will be the output of the following Python expression?

round(4.5676,2)?

a) 4.5 b) 4.6

c) 4.57 d) 4.56

28. Which of the statements about dictionary values if false?

a) More than one key can have the same value

b) The values of the dictionary can be accessed as dict[key]

c) Values of a dictionary must be unique

d) Values of a dictionary can be a mixture of letters and numbers

29. If a is a dictionary with some key-value pairs, what does a.popitem() do?

a) Removes an arbitrary element

b) Removes all the key-value pairs

c) Removes the key-value pair for the key given as an argument

d) Invalid method for dictionary

30. What will be the output of the following Python code snippet?

a = {}

a[1] = 1

a['1'] = 2
a[1]=a[1]+1

count = 0

for i in a:

count += a[i]

print(count)

a) Error, the keys can’t be a mixture of letters and numbers

b) 2

c) 4

d) 1

31. What will be the output of the following Python code snippet?

>>>import collections

>>> b=collections.Counter([2,2,3,4,4,4])

>>>b.most_common(1)

a) Counter({4: 3, 2: 2, 3: 1}) b) {3:1}

c) {4:3} d) [(4, 3)]

32. Which of the following is not a declaration of the dictionary?

a) {1: ‘A’, 2: ‘B’} b) dict([[1,”A”],[2,”B”]])

c) {1,”A”,2”B”} d) { }

33. Which of these about a dictionary is false?

a) The values of a dictionary can be accessed using keys

b) The keys of a dictionary can be accessed using values

c) Dictionaries aren’t ordered

d) Dictionaries are mutable

34. To which of the following the “in” operator can be used to check if an item
is in it?
a) Lists b) Dictionary

c) Set d) All of the mentioned

35. What will be the output of the following Python code?

def example(L):

''' (list) -> list

'''

i=0

result = []

while i <len(L):

result.append(L[i])

i=i+3

return result

a) Return a list containing every third item from L starting at index 0

b) Return an empty list

c) Return a list containing every third index from L starting at index 0

d) Return a list containing the items from L starting from index 0, omitting
every

third item

36. Suppose list1 is [2, 33, 222, 14, 25], What is list1[-1]?

a) Error b) None

c) 25 d) 2

37. To shuffle the list(say list1) what function do we use?

a) list1.shuffle() b) shuffle(list1)

c) random.shuffle(list1) d) random.shuffleList(list1)

38. What will be the output of the following Python code?

print(sum(lst,[]))

a) [[3],[7]] b) [1,2,3,4]

c) Error d) [10]

39. Which of the following functions does not necessarily accept only
iterablesas

arguments?

a) enumerate() b) all()

c) chr() d) max()

40. What will be the output of the following Python functions?

chr(‘97’)

chr(97)

a)a

Error

b)‘a’

c)Error

d)Error

Error