CHAPTER :-2

Multiple Choice Questions

Question 1

The numbered position of a letter in a string is called ...............

1. position
2. integer position
3. index
4. location

Answer

index

Reason — The index is the numbered position of a letter in the string.

Question 2

The operator ............... tells if an element is present in a sequence or not.

1. exists
2. in
3. into
4. inside

Answer

in

Reason — in is membership operator which returns True if a character or a substring exists in

the given string else returns False.

Question 3

The keys of a dictionary must be of ............... types.

1. integer
2. mutable
3. immutable
4. any of these
Answer

immutable

Reason — Dictionaries are indexed by keys and its keys must be of any immutable type.

Question 4

Following set of commands is executed in shell, what will be the output?

>>>str = "hello"
>>>str[:2]
>>>

1. he
2. lo
3. olleh
4. hello

Answer

he

Reason — str[:2] here slicing operation begins from index 0 and ends at index 1. Hence the
output will be 'he'.

Question 5

What data type is the object below ?

L = [1, 23, 'hello', 1]

1. list
2. dictionary
3. array
4. tuple

Answer

list

Reason — A list can store a sequence of values belonging to any data type and they are depicted
through square brackets.

Question 6
What data type is the object below ?
L = 1, 23, 'hello', 1

1. list
2. dictionary
3. array
4. tuple

Answer

tuple

Reason — For creating a tuple, enclosing the elements inside parentheses is optional. Even if
parentheses are omitted as shown here, still this statement will create a tuple.

Question 7

To store values in terms of key and value, what core data type does Python provide ?

1. list
2. tuple
3. class
4. dictionary

Answer

dictionary

Reason — Dictionaries are mutable with elements in the form of a key:value pair that associate
keys to values.

Question 8

What is the value of the following expression ?

3 + 3.00, 3**3.0

1. (6.0, 27.0)
2. (6.0, 9.00)
3. (6, 27)
4. [6.0, 27.0]
5. [6, 27]

Answer

(6.0, 27.0)
Reason — The value of expression is in round brackets because it is tuple.
3 + 3.00 = 6.0
3**3.0 = 3 x 3 x 3 = 27.0

Question 9

List AL is defined as follows : AL = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Which of the following statements removes the middle element 3 from it so that the list AL
equals [1, 2, 4, 5] ?

1. del AL[2]
2. AL[2:3] = []
3. AL[2:2] = []
4. AL[2] = []
5. AL.remove(3)

Answer

del AL[2]
AL[2:3] = []
AL.remove(3)

Reason — del AL[2] — The del keyword deletes the element from the list AL from index 2.
AL[2:3] = [] — The slicing of the list AL[2:3] begins at index 2 and ends at index 2. Therefore,
the element at index 2 will be replaced by an empty list [].
AL.remove(3) — The remove() function removes an element from the list AL from index 3."

Question 10

Which two lines of code are valid strings in Python ?

1. This is a string
2. 'This is a string'
3. (This is a string)
4. "This is a string"

Answer

'This is a string'
"This is a string"

Reason — Strings are enclosed within single or double quotes.

Question 11
You have the following code segment :

String1 = "my"
String2 = "work"
print(String1 + String2)
What is the output of this code?

1. my work
2. work
3. mywork
4. my

Answer

Output

mywork
Reason — The + operator creates a new string by joining the two operand strings.

Question 12

You have the following code segment :

String1 = "my"
String2 = "work"
print(String1+String2.upper())
What is the output of this code?

1. mywork
2. MY Work
3. myWORK
4. My Work

Answer

Output

myWORK
Reason — string.upper() method returns a copy of the string converted to uppercase. The +
operator creates a new string by joining the two operand strings.

Question 13
Which line of code produces an error ?

1. "one" + 'two'
2. 1+2
3. "one" + "2"
4. '1' + 2

Answer

'1' + 2

Reason — The + operator has to have both operands of the same type either of number type (for
addition) or of string type (for concatenation). It cannot work with one operand as string and one
as a number.

Question 14

What is the output of this code ?

>>> int("3" + "4")

1. "7"
2. "34"
3. 34
4. 24

Answer

Output

34
Reason — The + operator concatenates two strings and int converts it to integer type.
int("3" + "4")
= int("34")
= 34

Question 15

Which line of code will cause an error ?

1. num= [5, 4, 3, [2], 1]

2. print(num[0])
3. print(num[3][0])
4. print(num[5])
 1. Line 3
2. Line 2
3. Line 4
4. Line 1

Answer

Line 4

Reason — Index 5 is out of range because list has 5 elements which counts to index 4.

Question 16

Which is the correct form of declaration of dictionary ?

1. Day = {1:'Monday', 2:'Tuesday', 3:'wednesday'}

2. Day = {1;'Monday', 2;'Tuesday', 3;'wednesday'}
3. Day = [1:'Monday', 2:'Tuesday', 3:'wednesday']
4. Day = {1'monday', 2'tuesday', 3'wednesday'}

Answer

Day = {1:'Monday', 2:'Tuesday', 3:'wednesday'}

Reason — The syntax of dictionary declaration is:

<dictionary-name> = {<key>:<value>, <key>:<value>}

According this syntax, Day = {1:'Monday', 2:'Tuesday', 3:'wednesday'} is the correct answer.

Question 17

Identify the valid declaration of L:

L = ['Mon', '23', 'hello', '60.5']

1. dictionary
2. string
3. tuple
4. list

Answer

list
Reason — A list can store a sequence of values belonging to any data type and enclosed in
square brackets.

Question 18

Suppose a tuple T is declared as T = (10, 12, 43, 39), which of the following is incorrect ?

1. print(T[1])
2. T[2] = -29
3. print(max(T))
4. print(len(T))

Answer

T[2] = -29

Reason — Tuples are immutable. Hence we cannot perform item-assignment in tuples.

Fill in the Blanks

Question 1

Strings in Python store their individual letters in Memory in contiguous location.

Question 2

Operator + when used with two strings, gives a concatenated string.

Question 3

Operator + when used with a string and an integer gives an error.

Question 4

Part of a string containing some contiguous characters from the string is called string slice.

Question 5

The * operator when used with a list/string and an integer, replicates the list/string.

Question 6

Tuples or Strings are not mutable while lists are.

Question 7

Using list() function, you can make a true copy of a list.

Question 8

The pop() function is used to remove an item from a list/dictionary.

Question 9

The del statement can remove an individual item or a slice from a list.

Question 10

The clear() function removes all the elements of a list/dictionary.

Question 11

Creating a tuple from a set of values is called packing.

Question 12

Creating individual values from a tuple's elements is called unpacking.

Question 13

The keys() method returns all the keys in a dictionary.

Question 14

The values() function returns all values from Key : value pair of a dictionary.

Question 15

The items() function returns all the Key : value pairs as (key, value) sequences.

True/False Questions

Question 1

Do both the following represent the same list.

['a', 'b', 'c']
['c', 'a', 'b']
Answer

False

Reason — Lists are ordered sequences. In the above two lists, even though the elements are
same, they are at different indexes (i.e., different order). Hence, they are two different lists.

Question 2

A list may contain any type of objects except another list.

Answer

False

Reason — A list can store any data types and even list can contain another list as element.

Question 3

There is no conceptual limit to the size of a list.

Answer

True

Reason — The list can be of any size.

Question 4

All elements in a list must be of the same type.

Answer

False

Reason — A list is a standard data type of python that can store a sequence of values belonging
to any data type.

Question 5

A given object may appear in a list more than once.

Answer

True

Reason — List can have duplicate values.

Question 6

The keys of a dictionary must be of immutable types.

Answer

True

Reason — Dictionaries are indexed by keys. Hence its keys must be of any non-mutable type.

Question 7

You can combine a numeric value and a string by using the + symbol.

Answer

False

Reason — The + operator has to have both operands of the same type either of number type (for
addition) or both of string type (for concatenation). It cannot work with one operand as string
and one as a number.

Question 8

The clear( ) removes all the elements of a dictionary but does not delete the empty dictionary.

Answer

True

Reason — The clear() method removes all items from the dictionary and the dictionary becomes
empty dictionary post this method. del statement removes the complete dictionary as an object.

Question 9

The max( ) and min( ) when used with tuples, can work if elements of the tuple are all of the
same type.

Answer

True

Reason — Tuples should contain same type of elements for max() and min() method to work.

Question 10

A list of characters is similar to a string type.

Answer

False

Reason — In Python, a list of characters and a string type are not similar. Strings are immutable
sequences of characters, while lists are mutable sequences that can contain various data types.
Lists have specific methods and behaviors that differ from strings, such as append(), extend(),
pop() etc.

Question 11

For any index n, s[:n] + s[n:] will give you original string s.

Answer

True

Reason — s[:n] — The slicing of a string starts from index 0 and ends at index n-1.
s[n:] — The slicing of a string starts from index n and continues until the end of the string.
So when we concatenate these two substrings we get original string s.

Question 12

A dictionary can contain keys of any valid Python types.

Answer

False

Reason — The keys of a dictionary must be of immutable types.

Assertions and Reasons

Question 1

Assertion. Lists and Tuples are similar sequence types of Python, yet they are two different data
types.

Reason. List sequences are mutable and Tuple sequences are immutable.

Answer

(a)

Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
Explanation
Lists and tuples are similar sequence types in python, but they are distinct data types. Both are
used to store collections of items, but they have different properties and use cases. Lists are
mutable, meaning you can add, remove, or modify elements after the list is created. Tuples, on
the other hand, are immutable, meaning once a tuple is created, its contents cannot be changed.

Question 2

Assertion. Modifying a string creates another string internally but modifying a list does not
create a new list.

Reason. Strings store characters while lists can store any type of data.

Answer

(b)

Both Assertion and Reason are true but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.

Explanation
In Python, strings are immutable, meaning once they are created, their contents cannot be
changed. Whenever we modify a string, python creates a new string object to hold the modified
contents, leaving the original string unchanged. On the other hand, lists in python are mutable,
meaning we can modify their contents after they have been created. When we modify a list,
python does not create a new list object. Instead, it modifies the existing list object in place.
Strings are sequences of characters, and each character in a string can be accessed by its index.
Lists, on the other hand, can store any type of data, including integers, floats, strings.

Question 3

Assertion. Modifying a string creates another string internally but modifying a list does not
create a new list.

Reason. Strings are immutable types while lists are mutable types of python.

Answer

(a)

Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

Explanation
In Python, strings are immutable, meaning once they are created, their contents cannot be
changed. Whenever we modify a string, python creates a new string object to hold the modified
contents, leaving the original string unchanged. On the other hand, lists in python are mutable,
meaning we can modify their contents after they have been created. When we modify a list,
python does not create a new list object. Instead, it modifies the existing list object in place.
Question 4

Assertion. Dictionaries are mutable, hence its keys can be easily changed.

Reason. Mutability means a value can be changed in place without having to create new storage
for the changed value.

Answer

(d)

Assertion is false but Reason is true.

Explanation
Dictionaries are indexed by keys and each key must be immutable and unique. However, the
dictionary itself is mutable, meaning that we can add, remove, or modify key-value pairs within
the dictionary without changing the identity of the dictionary object itself. Mutability refers to
the ability to change a value in place without creating a new storage location for the changed
value.

Question 5

Assertion. Dictionaries are mutable but their keys are immutable.

Reason. The values of a dictionary can change but keys of dictionary cannot be changed because
through them data is hashed.

Answer

(a)

Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

Explanation
A dictionary is a unordered set of key : value pairs and are indexed by keys. The values of a
dictionary can change but keys of dictionary cannot be changed because through them data is
hashed. Hence dictionaries are mutable but keys are immutable and unique.

Question 6

Assertion. In Insertion Sort, a part of the array is always sorted.

Reason. In Insertion sort, each successive element is picked and inserted at an appropriate
position in the sorted part of the array.

Answer

(a)
Both Assertion and Reason are true and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.

Explanation
Insertion sort is a sorting algorithm that builds a sorted list, one element at a time from the
unsorted list by inserting the element at its correct position in sorted list. In Insertion sort, each
successive element is picked and inserted at an appropriate position in the previously sorted
array.

Type A: Short Answer Questions/Conceptual Questions

Question 1

What is the internal structure of python strings ?

Answer

Strings in python are stored as individual characters in contiguous memory locations, with two-
way index for each location. The index (also called subscript) is the numbered position of a letter
in the string. Indices begin 0 onwards in the forward direction up to length-1 and -1,-2, .... up to -
length in the backward direction. This is called two-way indexing.

Question 2

Write a python script that traverses through an input string and prints its characters in different
lines - two characters per line.

Answer

name = input("Enter name:")

for i in range(0, len(name), 2):
print(name[i:i+2])

Output

Enter name:python
py
th
on

Question 3

Discuss the utility and significance of Lists, briefly.

Answer
A list is a standard data type of python that can store a sequence of values belonging to any type.
Lists are mutable i.e., we can change elements of a list in place. Their dynamic nature allows for
flexible manipulation, including appending, inserting, removing, and slicing elements. Lists offer
significant utility in data storage, iteration, and manipulation tasks.

Question 4

What do you understand by mutability ? What does "in place" task mean ?

Answer

Mutability means that the value of an object can be updated by directly changing the contents of
the memory location where the object is stored. There is no need to create another copy of the
object in a new memory location with the updated values. Examples of mutable objects in python
include lists, dictionaries.
In python, "in place" tasks refer to operations that modify an object directly without creating a
new object or allocating additional memory. For example, list methods like append(), extend(),
and pop() perform operations in place, modifying the original list, while string methods like
replace() do not modify the original string in place but instead create a new string with the
desired changes.

Question 5

Start with the list [8, 9, 10]. Do the following using list functions:

1. Set the second entry (index 1) to 17

2. Add 4, 5 and 6 to the end of the list
3. Remove the first entry from the list
4. Sort the list
5. Double the list
6. Insert 25 at index 3

Answer

listA = [8, 9, 10]

1. listA[1] = 17
2. listA.extend([4, 5, 6])
3. listA.pop(0)
4. listA.sort()
5. listA = listA * 2
6. listA.insert(3, 25)

Question 6
What's a[1 : 1] if a is a string of at least two characters ? And what if string is shorter ?

Answer

a[x:y] returns a slice of the sequence from index x to y - 1. So, a[1 : 1] will return an empty list
irrespective of whether the list has two elements or less as a slice from index 1 to index 0 is an
invalid range.

Question 7

What are the two ways to add something to a list ? How are they different ?

Answer

The two methods to add something to a list are:

1. append method — The syntax of append method is list.append(item).

2. extend method — The syntax of extend method is list.extend(<list>).
Difference

The difference between the append() and extend() methods in python is that append() adds one
element at the end of a list, while extend() can add multiple elements, given in the form of a list,
to a list.

Example

append method:

lst1 = [10, 12, 14]

lst1.append(16)
print(lst1)
Output — [10, 12, 14, 16]
extend method:

t1 = ['a', 'b', 'c']

t2 = ['d', 'e']
t1.extend(t2)
print(t1)
Output — ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

Question 8

What are the two ways to remove something from a list? How are they different ?

Answer
The two ways to remove something from a list are:

1. pop method — The syntax of pop method is List.pop(<index>).

2. del statement — The syntax of del statement is

del list[<index>] # to remove element at index

del list[<start>:<stop>] # to remove elements in list slice
Difference

The difference between the pop() and del is that pop() method is used to remove single item from
the list, not list slices whereas del statement is used to remove an individual item, or to remove
all items identified by a slice.

Example

pop() method:

t1 = ['k', 'a', 'e', 'i', 'p', 'q', 'u']

ele1 = t1.pop(0)
print(ele1)
Output — 'k'
del statement:

lst = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
del lst[2:4]
print(lst)
Output — [1, 2, 5]

Question 9

What is the difference between a list and a tuple ?

Answer

List Tuple

Lists are mutable sequences of Python i.e., we can Tuples are immutable sequences of Python i.e., we
change elements of a list in place. cannot change elements of a tuple in place.

The syntax to create list is <list-name> = The syntax to create tuple is <tuple-name> = (value,
[value,.....] ....)

Lists cannot be used as keys in dictionary. Tuples can be used as keys in dictionary.
 List Tuple

Lists cannot be used as elements of a set. Tuples can be used as elements of a set.
Lists are slower compared to tuples. Tuples are faster compared to lists.

Question 10

In the Python shell, do the following :

1. Define a variable named states that is an empty list.

2. Add 'Delhi' to the list.
3. Now add 'Punjab' to the end of the list.
4. Define a variable states2 that is initialized with 'Rajasthan', 'Gujarat', and 'Kerala'.
5. Add 'Odisha' to the beginning of the list states2.
6. Add 'Tripura' so that it is the third state in the list states2.
7. Add 'Haryana' to the list states2 so that it appears before 'Gujarat'. Do this as if you DO
NOT KNOW where 'Gujarat' is in the list. Hint. See what states2.index("Rajasthan")
does. What can you conclude about what listname.index(item) does ?
8. Remove the 5th state from the list states2 and print that state's name.

Answer

1. states = []
2. states.append('Delhi')
3. states.append('Punjab')
4. states2 = ['Rajasthan', 'Gujarat', 'Kerala']
5. states2.insert(0,'Odisha')
6. states2.insert(2,'Tripura')
7. a = states2.index('Gujarat')
states2.insert(a - 1,'Haryana')
8. b = states2.pop(4)
print(b)

Question 11

Discuss the utility and significance of Tuples, briefly.

Answer
Tuples are used to store multiple items in a single variable. It is a collection which is ordered and
immutable i.e., the elements of the tuple can't be changed in place. Tuples are useful when values
to be stored are constant and need to be accessed quickly.

Question 12

If a is (1, 2, 3)

1. what is the difference (if any) between a * 3 and (a, a, a) ?

2. Is a * 3 equivalent to a + a + a ?
3. what is the meaning of a[1:1] ?
4. what is the difference between a[1:2] and a[1:1] ?

Answer

1. a * 3 ⇒ (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3)
(a, a, a) ⇒ ((1, 2, 3), (1, 2, 3), (1, 2, 3))
So, a * 3 repeats the elements of the tuple whereas (a, a, a) creates nested tuple.
2. Yes, both a * 3 and a + a + a will result in (1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3).
3. This colon indicates (:) simple slicing operator. Tuple slicing is basically used to obtain a
range of items.
tuple[Start : Stop] ⇒ returns the portion of the tuple from index Start to index Stop
(excluding element at stop).
a[1:1] ⇒ This will return empty list as a slice from index 1 to index 0 is an invalid range.
4. Both are creating tuple slice with elements falling between indexes start and stop.
a[1:2] ⇒ (2,)
It will return elements from index 1 to index 2 (excluding element at 2).
a[1:1] ⇒ ()
a[1:1] specifies an invalid range as start and stop indexes are the same. Hence, it will
return an empty list.

Question 13

What is the difference between (30) and (30,) ?

Answer

a = (30) ⇒ It will be treated as an integer expression, hence a stores an integer 30, not a tuple.
a = (30,) ⇒ It is considered as single element tuple since a comma is added after the element to
convert it into a tuple.

Question 14

Write a Python statement to declare a Dictionary named ClassRoll with Keys as 1, 2, 3 and
corresponding values as 'Reena', 'Rakesh', 'Zareen' respectively.
Answer

ClassRoll = {1:'Reena', 2:'Rakesh', 3:'Zareen'}

Question 15

Why is a dictionary termed as an unordered collection of objects ?

Answer

A dictionary is termed as an unordered collection of objects because the elements in a dictionary

are not stored in any particular order. Unlike string, list and tuple, a dictionary is not a sequence.
For a dictionary, the printed order of elements is not the same as the order in which the elements
are stored.

Question 16

What type of objects can be used as keys in dictionaries ?

Answer

Keys of a dictionary must be of immutable types such as

1. a Python string
2. a number
3. a tuple (containing only immutable entries)

Question 17

Though tuples are immutable type, yet they cannot always be used as keys in a dictionary. What
is the condition to use tuples as a key in a dictionary ?

Answer

For a tuple to be used as a key in a dictionary, all its elements must be immutable as well. If a
tuple contains mutable elements, such as lists, sets, or other dictionaries, it cannot be used as a
key in a dictionary.

Question 18

Dictionary is a mutable type, which means you can modify its contents ? What all is modifiable
in a dictionary ? Can you modify the keys of a dictionary ?

Answer
Yes, we can modify the contents of a dictionary.
Values of key-value pairs are modifiable in dictionary. New key-value pairs can also be added to
an existing dictionary and existing key-value pairs can be removed.
However, the keys of the dictionary cannot be changed. Instead we can add a new key : value
pair with the desired key and delete the previous one.
For example:

d = { 1 : 1 }
d[2] = 2
print(d)
d[1] = 3
print(d)
d[3] = 2
print(d)
del d[2]
print(d)

Output

{1: 1, 2: 2}
{1: 3, 2: 2}
{1: 3, 2: 2, 3: 2}
{1: 3, 3: 2}

Explanation

d is a dictionary which contains one key-value pair.

d[2] = 2 adds new key-value pair to d.
d[1] = 3 modifies value of key 1 from 1 to 3.
d[3] = 2 adds new key-value pair to d.
del d[2] deletes the key 2 and its corresponding value.

Question 19

How is del D and del D[<key>] different from one another if D is a dictionary ?

Answer

del D deletes the entire dictionary D. After executing del D, the variable D is no longer defined,
and any attempt to access D will result in a NameError.
del D[<key>] deletes the key-value pair associated with the specified key from the dictionary D.
After executing del D[<key>], the dictionary D still exists, but the specified key and its
corresponding value are removed from the dictionary.
For example:

d = {1: 'a' , 2 : 'b'}

del d[2]
print(d)
del d
print(d)

Output

{1:'a'}
NameError: name 'd' is not defined.

Question 20

Create a dictionary named D with three entries, for keys 'a', 'b' and 'c'. What happens if you try to
index a nonexistent key (D['d']) ? What does python do if you try to assign to a nonexistent key
d.
(e.g., D['d'] = 'spam') ?

Answer

1. In this example, the dictionary D does not contain the key 'd'. Therefore, attempting to
access this key by D['d'] results in a KeyError because the key does not exist in the
dictionary.
2. If we try to assign a value to a nonexistent key in a dictionary, python will create that
key-value pair in the dictionary. In this example, the key 'd' did not previously exist in the
dictionary D. When we attempted to assign the value 'spam' to the key 'd', python created
a new key-value pair 'd': 'spam' in the dictionary D.

D = {'a' : 1, 'b' : 2, 'c' : 3}

D['d'] = 'spam'

Output

D = {'a' : 1, 'b' : 2, 'c' : 3, 'd' : 'spam'}

Question 21

What is sorting ? Name some popular sorting techniques.

Answer

Sorting refers to arranging elements of a sequence in a specific order — ascending or

descending.

Sorting Techniques are as follows :

1. Bubble Sort
 2. Insertion Sort
3. Selection Sort
4. Heap Sort
5. Quick Sort

Question 22

Discuss Bubble sort and Insertion sort techniques.

Answer

Bubble Sort :
In Bubble sort, the adjoining values are compared and exchanged if they are not in proper order.
This process is repeated until the entire array is sorted.

Insertion Sort :
Insertion sort is a sorting algorithm that builds a sorted list one element at a time from the
unsorted list by inserting the element at its correct position in sorted list.

Type B: Application Based Questions

Question 1(a)

What will be the output produced by following code fragments ?

y = str(123)
x = "hello" \* 3
print(x, y)
x = "hello" + "world"
y = len(x)
print(y, x)

Answer

Output

hellohellohello 123
10 helloworld

Explanation

str(123) converts the number 123 to string and stores in y so y becomes "123". "hello" * 3
repeats "hello" 3 times and stores it in x so x becomes "hellohellohello".
"hello" + "world" concatenates both the strings so x becomes "helloworld". As "helloworld"
contains 10 characters so len(x) returns 10.

Question 1(b)

What will be the output produced by following code fragments ?

x = "hello" + \
"to Python" + \
"world"
for char in x :
y = char
print(y, ':', end=" ")

Answer

Output

h : e : l : l : o : t : o : : P : y : t : h : o : n : w : o : r : l
: d :

Explanation

The code concatenates three strings "hello", "to Python", and "world" into the variable x. Then, it
iterates over each character in x using a for loop. For each character, it assigns it to the
variable y and prints y followed by a colon and space, all on the same line due to the end="
" parameter.

Question 1(c)

What will be the output produced by following code fragments ?

x = "hello world"
print(x[:2], x[:-2], x[-2:])
print(x[6], x[2:4])
print(x[2:-3], x[-4:-2])

Answer

Output

he hello wor ld
w ll
llo wo or

Explanation
print(x[:2], x[:-2], x[-2:]) —
x[:2] extracts the substring from the beginning of x up to index 1, resulting in "he".
x[:-2] extracts the substring from the beginning of x up to the third last character, resulting in
"hello wor".
x[-2:] extracts the substring from the last two characters of x until the end, resulting in "ld".
Hence, output of this line becomes he hello wor ld
print(x[6], x[2:4]) —
x[6] retrieves the character at index 6, which is 'w'.
x[2:4] extracts the substring from index 2 up to index 3, resulting in "ll".
Hence, output of this line becomes w ll
print(x[2:-3], x[-4:-2]) —
x[2:-3] extracts the substring from index 2 up to the fourth last character, resulting in "llo wo".
x[-4:-2] extracts the substring from the fourth last character to the third last character, resulting in
"or".
Hence, output of this line becomes llo wo or

Question 2

Write a short Python code segment that adds up the lengths of all the words in a list and then
prints the average (mean) length.

Answer

word_list = eval(input("Enter a list of words: "))

total_length = 0
for word in word_list:
total_length += len(word)
average_length = total_length / len(word_list)
print("Average length of words:", average_length)

Output

Enter a list of words: ["apple", "banana", "orange", "kiwi"]

Average length of words: 5.25

Explanation

1. The code prompts the user to enter a list of words and assigns it to the
variable word_list.
2. We iterate over word_list using for loop. Inside the loop, length of each word gets
added to total_length variable.
3. Average length is calculated by dividing total_length by the number of words
in word_list.

Question 3
Predict the output of the following code snippet ?

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
print(a[3:0:-1])

Answer

Output

[4, 3, 2]

Explanation

The slicing notation a[start:stop:step] extracts a portion of the list from index start to stop-
1 with a specified step. In the slicing part a[3:0:-1]:

 start is 3, which corresponds to the element with value 4.

 stop is 0, but as element at stop index is excluded so slicing goes up to index 1.
 step is -1, indicating that we want to step backward through the list.

Putting it together:

a[3:0:-1]
This extracts elements from index 3 to (0+1) in reverse order with a step of -1.

The output of the code will be:

[4, 3, 2]

Question 4(a)

Predict the output of the following code snippet?

arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
for i in range(1, 6):
arr[i - 1] = arr[i]
for i in range(0, 6):
print(arr[i], end = "")

Answer

Output

234566

Explanation
 1. arr is initialised as a list with elements [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].
2. for loop iterates over the indices from 1 to 5. For each index i, it assigns the value
of arr[i] to arr[i - 1], effectively shifting each element one position to the left. After
this loop, the list arr becomes [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6].
3. Second for loop iterates over the indices from 0 to 5 and prints each element of the
list arr without newline characters because of end="" parameter. Then it prints the
elements of the modified list arr, resulting in 234566.

Question 4(b)

Predict the output of the following code snippet ?

Numbers = [9, 18, 27, 36]

for Num in Numbers :
for N in range(1, Num % 8) :
print(N, "#", end=" ")
print( )

Answer

Output

1 #
1 # 2 #
1 # 2 # 3 #

Explanation

1. Numbers is a list containing the numbers 9, 18, 27, and 36.

2. The outer for loop iterates over each element in the list Numbers.
3. The inner loop iterates over the range from 1 to the remainder of Num divided by 8. For
example, if Num is 9, the range will be from 1 to 1 (9 % 8 = 1). If Num is 18, the range
will be from 1 to 2 (18 % 8 = 2), and so on. Then it prints the value of N, followed by a
"#", and ensures that the output is printed on the same line by setting end=" ".
4. After both loops, it prints an empty line, effectively adding a newline character to the
output.

Question 5(a)

Find the errors. State reasons.

t = (1, "a", 9.2)

t[0] = 6
Answer
t[0] = 6 will raise a TypeError as tuples are immutable (i.e., their elements cannot be changed
after creation).

Question 5(b)

Find the errors. State reasons.

t = [1, "a", 9.2]

t[0] = 6

Answer

There are no errors in this python code. Lists in python can contain elements of any type. As lists
are mutable so t[0] = 6 is also valid.

Question 5(c)

Find the errors. State reasons.

t = [1, "a", 9.2]

t[4] = 6

Answer

t[4] = 6 will raise an error as we are trying to change the value at index 4 but it is outside the
current range of the list t. As t has 3 elements so its indexes are 0, 1, 2 only.

Question 5(d)

Find the errors. State reasons.

t = 'hello'
t[0] = "H"

Answer

t[0] = "H" will raise an error because strings in python are immutable, meaning we cannot
change individual characters in a string after it has been created. Therefore, attempting to assign
a new value to t[0] will result in an error.

Question 5(e)

Find the errors. State reasons.

for Name in [Amar, Shveta, Parag]

IF Name[0] = 'S':
print(Name)
Answer

The errors in this code are:

1. In the list [Amar, Shveta, Parag], each element should be enclosed in quotes because
they are strings.
2. The equality comparison operator is '==' instead of = for checking equality.
3. if statement should be lowercase.

Question 6

Assuming words is a valid list of words, the program below tries to print the list in reverse. Does
it have an error ? If so, why ? (Hint. There are two problems with the code.)

for i in range(len(words), 0, -1):

print(words[i], end=' ')

Answer

There are two issue in range(len(words), 0, -1):

1. The start index len(words) is invalid for the list words as it will have indexes from 0
to len(words) - 1.
2. The end index being 0 means that the last element of the list is missed as the list will be
iterated till index 1 only.

The corrected python code is :

for i in range(len(words)-1, -1, -1):

print(words[i], end=' ')

Question 7

What would be the output of following code if ntpl = ("Hello", "Nita", "How's", "life ?") ?

(a, b, c, d) = ntpl
print("a is:", a)
print("b is:", b)
print("c is:", c)
print("d is:", d)
ntpl = (a, b, c, d)
print(ntpl[0][0] + ntpl[1][1], ntpl[1])

Answer

Output
a is: Hello
b is: Nita
c is: How's
d is: life ?
Hi Nita

Explanation

ntpl is a tuple containing 4 elements. The statement (a, b, c, d) = ntpl unpacks the tuple ntpl
into the variables a, b, c, d. After that, the values of the variables are printed.
The statement ntpl = (a, b, c, d) forms a tuple with values of variables a, b, c, d and assigns
it to ntpl. As these variables were not modified, so effectively ntpl still contains the same values
as in the first statement.
ntpl[0] ⇒ "Hello"
∴ ntpl[0][0] ⇒ "H"

ntpl[1] ⇒ "Nita"
∴ ntpl[1][1] ⇒"i"

ntpl[0][0] and ntpl[1][1] concatenates to form "Hi". Thus ntpl[0][0]+ntpl[1][1],

ntpl[1] will return "Hi Nita ".

Question 8

What will be the output of the following code ?

tuple_a = 'a', 'b'

tuple_b = ('a', 'b')
print (tuple_a == tuple_b)

Answer

Output

True

Explanation

Tuples can be declared with or without parentheses (parentheses are optional). Here, tuple_a is
declared without parentheses where as tuple_b is declared with parentheses but both are
identical. As both the tuples contain same values so the equality operator ( == ) returns true.

Question 9

What will be the output of the following code snippet ?

rec = {"Name" : "Python", "Age" : "20", "Addr" : "NJ", "Country" :
"USA"}
id1 = id(rec)
del rec
rec = {"Name" : "Python", "Age" : "20", "Addr" : "NJ", "Country" :
"USA"}
id2 = id(rec)
print(id1 == id2)

1. True
2. False
3. 1
4. Exception

Answer

Output

True

Explanation

In the given python code snippet, id1 and id2 will point to two different objects in memory
as del rec deleted the original dictionary whose id is stored in id1 and created a new dictionary
with the same contents storing its id in id2. However, id1 == id2 will compare the contents of
the two dictionaries pointed to by id1 and id2. As contents of both the dictionaries are same
hence it returns True. If in this code we add another line print(id1 is id2) then this line will
print False as id1 and id2 point to two different dictionary objects in memory.

Question 10

Write the output of the code given below :

my_dict = {"name" : "Aman", "age" : 26}

my_dict['age'] = 27
my_dict['address'] = "Delhi"
print(my_dict.items())

Answer

Output

dict_items([('name', 'Aman'), ('age', 27), ('address', 'Delhi')])

Explanation
A dictionary my_dict with two key-value pairs, 'name': 'Aman' and 'age': 26 is initialized. Then
updates the value associated with the key 'age' to 27. Then adds a new key-value pair 'address':
'Delhi' to the dictionary my_dict. The items() method returns all of the items in the dictionary as
a sequence of (key, value) tuples. In this case, it will print [('name', 'Aman'), ('age', 27),
('address', 'Delhi')].

Question 11

Write a method in python to display the elements of list thrice if it is a number and display the
element terminated with '#' if it is not number.

For example, if the content of list is as follows :

List = ['41', 'DROND', 'GIRIRAJ', '13', 'ZARA']

The output should be
414141
DROND#
GIRIRAJ#
131313
ZAR#

Answer

def display(my_list):
for item in my_list:
if item.isdigit():
print(item * 3)
else:
print(item + '#')
display(my_list = eval(input("Enter the list :")))

Output

Enter the elements of the list separated by spaces:41 DROND GIRIRAJ 13

ZARA
414141
DROND#
GIRIRAJ#
131313
ZARA#

Explanation

1. The code prompts the user to enter the elements of the list separated by spaces and stores
the input as a single string in the variable my_list.
 2. Then splits the input string my_list into individual elements and stores them in a new list
called new_list.
3. Then for loop iterates over each element in the new_list.
4. The isdigit() method is used to check if all characters in the string are digits. If it's true
(i.e., if the element consists only of digits), then it prints the element concatenated with
itself three times. Otherwise, if the element contains non-digit characters, it prints the
element concatenated with the character '#'.

Question 12

Name the function/method required to

(i) check if a string contains only uppercase letters.

(ii) gives the total length of the list.

Answer

(i) isupper() method is used to check if a string contains only uppercase letters.

(ii) len() gives the total length of the list.

Question 13

What will be the output of the following code snippet ?

my_dict = {}
my_dict[(1,2,4)] = 8
my_dict[(4,2,1)] = 10
my_dict[(1,2)] = 12
sum = 0
for k in my_dict:
sum += my_dict[k]
print(sum)
print(my_dict)

Answer

Output

30
{(1, 2, 4): 8, (4, 2, 1): 10, (1, 2): 12}

Explanation

1. An empty dictionary named my_dict is initialized.

 2. my_dict[(1,2,4)] = 8, my_dict[(4,2,1)] = 10, my_dict[(1,2)] = 12 these lines
assign values to the dictionary my_dict with keys as tuples. Since tuples are immutable,
so they can be used as keys in the dictionary.
3. The for loop iterates over the keys of the dictionary my_dict. Inside the loop, the value
associated with each key k is added to the variable sum.
4. sum and my_dict are printed.

Type C: Programming Practice/Knowledge based Questions

Question 1

Write a program that prompts for a phone number of 10 digits and two dashes, with dashes after
the area code and the next three numbers. For example, 017-555-1212 is a legal input.
Display if the phone number entered is valid format or not and display if the phone number is
valid or not (i.e., contains just the digits and dash at specific places).

Solution

phNo = input("Enter the phone number: ")

length = len(phNo)
if length == 12 \
and phNo[3] == "-" \
and phNo[7] == "-" \
and phNo[:3].isdigit() \
and phNo[4:7].isdigit() \
and phNo[8:].isdigit() :
print("Valid Phone Number")
else :
print("Invalid Phone Number")

Output

Enter the phone number: 017-555-1212

Valid Phone Number

=====================================

Enter the phone number: 017-5A5-1212

Invalid Phone Number

Question 2

Write a program that should prompt the user to type some sentence(s) followed by "enter". It
should then print the original sentence(s) and the following statistics relating to the sentence(s):
  Number of words
 Number of characters (including white-space and punctuation)
 Percentage of characters that are alpha numeric

Hints

 Assume any consecutive sequence of non-blank characters in a word.

Solution

str = input("Enter a few sentences: ")

length = len(str)
spaceCount = 0
alnumCount = 0

for ch in str :
if ch.isspace() :
spaceCount += 1
elif ch.isalnum() :
alnumCount += 1

alnumPercent = alnumCount / length * 100

print("Original Sentences:")
print(str)

print("Number of words =", (spaceCount + 1))

print("Number of characters =", (length))
print("Alphanumeric Percentage =", alnumPercent)

Output

Enter a few sentences: Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido
van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.
Its implementation began in December 1989. Python 3.0 was released on
3 December 2008.
Original Sentences:
Python was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum
Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. Its implementation
began in December 1989. Python 3.0 was released on 3 December 2008.
Number of words = 34
Number of characters = 205
Alphanumeric Percentage = 80.48780487804879

Question 3
Write a program that takes any two lists L and M of the same size and adds their elements
together to form a new list N whose elements are sums of the corresponding elements in L and
M. For instance, if L = [3, 1, 4] and M = [1, 5, 9], then N should equal [4, 6, 13].

Solution

print("Enter two lists of same size")

L = eval(input("Enter first list(L): "))
M = eval(input("Enter second list(M): "))
N = []

for i in range(len(L)):
N.append(L[i] + M[i])

print("List N:")
print(N)

Output

Enter two lists of same size

Enter first list(L): [3, 1, 4]
Enter second list(M): [1, 5, 9]
List N:
[4, 6, 13]

Question 4

Write a program that rotates the elements of a list so that the element at the first index moves to
the second index, the element in the second index moves to the third index, etc., and the element
in the last index moves to the first index.

Solution

l = eval(input("Enter the list: "))

print("Original List")
print(l)

l = l[-1:] + l[:-1]

print("Rotated List")
print(l)

Output

Enter the list: [8, 10, 13, 25, 7, 11]

Original List
[8, 10, 13, 25, 7, 11]
Rotated List
[11, 8, 10, 13, 25, 7]

Question 5

Write a short python code segment that prints the longest word in a list of words.

Solution

my_list = eval(input("Enter the list : "))

longest_word = ""
max_length = 0

for word in my_list:

if len(word) > max_length:
max_length = len(word)
longest_word = word

print("Longest word:", longest_word)

Output

Enter the list : ['red', 'yellow', 'green', 'blue']

Longest word: yellow
Enter the list : ['lion', 'elephant', 'tiger', 'monkey',
'hippopotamus']
Longest word: hippopotamus

Question 6

Write a program that creates a list of all the integers less than 100 that are multiples of 3 or 5.

Solution

a = []
for i in range(0,100):
if (i % 3 == 0) or (i % 5 == 0) :
a.append(i)
print(a)

Output
[0, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 30, 33, 35, 36,
39, 40, 42, 45, 48, 50, 51, 54, 55, 57, 60, 63, 65, 66, 69, 70, 72,
75, 78, 80, 81, 84, 85, 87, 90, 93, 95, 96, 99]

Question 7

Define two variables first and second so that first = "Jimmy" and second = "Johny". Write a short
python code segment that swaps the values assigned to these two variables and prints the results.

Solution

first = "Jimmy"
second = "Johny"
temp = first
first = second
second = temp
print("first =", first)
print("second =", second)

Output

first = Johny
second = Jimmy

Question 8

Write a python program that creates a tuple storing first 9 terms of Fibonacci series.

Solution

lst = [0,1]
a = 0
b = 1
c = 0

for i in range(7):
c = a + b
a = b
b = c
lst.append(c)

tup = tuple(lst)

print("9 terms of Fibonacci series are:", tup)

Output

9 terms of Fibonacci series are: (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21)

Question 9

Create a dictionary whose keys are month names and whose values are the number of days in the
corresponding months.

(a) Ask the user to enter a month name and use the dictionary to tell them how many days are in
the month.

(b) Print out all of the keys in alphabetical order.

(c) Print out all of the months with 31 days.

(d) Print out the (key-value) pairs sorted by the number of days in each month.

Solution

days_in_months = {
"january":31,
"february":28,
"march":31,
"april":30,
"may":31,
"june":30,
"july":31,
"august":31,
"september":30,
"october":31,
"november":30,
"december":31
}

m = input("Enter name of month: ")

if m not in days_in_months:
print("Please enter the correct month")
else:
print("There are", days_in_months[m], "days in", m)

print("Months in alphabetical order are:", sorted(days_in_months))

print("Months with 31 days:", end=" ")

for i in days_in_months:
if days_in_months[i] == 31:
 print(i, end=" ")

day_month_lst = []
for i in days_in_months:
day_month_lst.append([days_in_months[i], i])
day_month_lst.sort()

month_day_lst =[]
for i in day_month_lst:
month_day_lst.append([i[1], i[0]])

sorted_days_in_months = dict(month_day_lst)
print()
print("Months sorted by days:", sorted_days_in_months)

Output

Enter name of month: may

There are 31 days in may
Months in alphabetical order are: ['april', 'august', 'december',
'february', 'january', 'july', 'june', 'march', 'may', 'november',
'october', 'september']
Months with 31 days: january march may july august october december
Months sorted by days: {'february': 28, 'april': 30, 'june': 30,
'november': 30, 'september': 30, 'august': 31, 'december': 31,
'january': 31, 'july': 31, 'march': 31, 'may': 31, 'october': 31}

Question 10

Write a function called addDict(dict1, dict2) which computes the union of two dictionaries. It
should return a new dictionary, with all the items in both its arguments (assumed to be
dictionaries). If the same key appears in both arguments, feel free to pick a value from either.

Solution

def addDict(dict1, dict2):

union_dict = {}
for key, value in dict1.items():
union_dict[key] = value
for key, value in dict2.items():
union_dict[key] = value
return union_dict

dict1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

dict2 = {'b': 3, 'c': 4}
result = addDict(dict1, dict2)
print("Union of dict1 and dict2:", result)

Output

Union of dict1 and dict2: {'a': 1, 'b': 3, 'c': 4}

Question 11

Write a program to sort a dictionary's keys using Bubble sort and produce the sorted keys as a
list.

Solution

my_dict = eval(input("Enter the dictionary: "))

keys = list(my_dict.keys())
l = len(keys)
for i in range(l):
for j in range(0, l - i - 1):
if keys[j] > keys[j + 1]:
keys[j], keys[j + 1] = keys[j + 1], keys[j]
print("Sorted keys:",keys)

Output

Enter the dictionary: {'c':10, 'f':87, 'r':23, 'a':5}

Sorted keys: ['a', 'c', 'f', 'r']

Question 12

Write a program to sort a dictionary's values using Bubble sort and produce the sorted values as a
list.

Solution

my_dict = eval(input("Enter the dictionary: "))

values = list(my_dict.values())
l = len(values)
for i in range(l):
for j in range(0, l - i - 1):
if values[j] > values[j + 1]:
# Swap values
values[j], values[j + 1] = values[j + 1], values[j]
print("Sorted values:", values)

Output
Enter the dictionary: {'w':34, 'a':5, 'g':45, 't':21}
Sorted values: [5, 21, 34, 45]