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Python Previously asked question

Short Questions
1. In some languages, every statement ends with a semi-colon (;). What happens if you put a semi-colon at
the end of a Python statement? [2019-20]
2. Mention five benefits of using Python. [2019-20]
3. How is Python an interpreted language? [2019-20]
4. What type of language is python? [2019-20]
5. What are local variables and global variables in Python? [2019-20]
6. Define floor division with example. [2019-20]
7. Which of the following statements produce an error in python
X, y, z = 1,2,3 #S1
A,b = 4,5,6 #S2
U = 7,8,9, 3 #S3 [2020-2021]
8. What is the role of precedence with example. [2020-2021]
9. How do you read an input from a user in python to be used as an integer in the rest of the program
?explain with an example. [2020-2021]
10. Explain the Programming Cycle for Python in detail. [2021-2022]
11. Describe the behaviour of “range (s,e)” in python. [2020-2021]
12. What will be the output of following python code?
While i<=3:
Print(i)
i+= 1
else:
print(0) [2021-22]
13. What is the difference between list and tuples in Python? [2019-20]
14. What is the difference between Python Arrays and lists? [ 2019-20][2022-23]
15. Differentiate Fruitful functions and void functions. [ 2019-20]
16. Write a recursive python function “rprint” to print all elements in a list reverse .
Rprint([]) prints nothing
Rprint([1,2,3]) prints 3,2,1 [2020-2021]
17. Consider the program :
X = [’12 ’, ‘hello’, 456]
X[0] *= 3
X[1][1] = ‘bye’
Explain why this program generates an error. [2020-2021]
18. What is the output of the following program ?
(lambda x,y : y – 2*x) (1,11) [2020-2021]
19. What will be the output of following python code? [2021-22]
Def cube(X):
return X*X*X
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x= cube(3)
print(x) [2021-22]
20. Describe the concept of List Slicing with a suitable example. [2022-23]
21. Show the way to import the module in python. [2022-23]
22. What will be the output of the following python code
def count1(s):
vowels = "AEIOUaeiou"
count = 0
for c in s:
if c in vowels:
count += 1
return count
print(count1(‘I love India’)) [2022-23]
23. What will be the output of the following code?
list1 = ['M', 'o', 'n', 'k', 'y']
print("@".join(list1)) [2022-23]
24. Describe the use of class `__init__()` method. [2022-2023]
25. Explain the output of following function.
def printalpha (abc_list, num_list):
for char in abc_list:
for num in num_list:
print(char, num)
return
printalpha (['a', 'b', 'c'], [1, 2, 3]) [2022-2023]

26. Describe the concept of List Comprehension with a suitable example. [2023-2024]
27. Compute the output of the following python code:
def count(s):
for str in string.split():
s=”&”.join(str)
return s
print(count(“Python is fun to learn”)) [2023-2024]
28. How to use the function defined in library.py in main.py [2023-2024]
29. Describe the difference between linespace and argspace. [2023-2024]
30. Explain why program generates an error
X=[‘12’,’hello’,456]
X[0]*=3
X[1][1]=’bye’ [2023-2024]
31. Describe about different function of matplotlib and pandas. [2023-2024]

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Long questions
1. What is Python? How Python is interpreted? What are the tools that help to find bugs or perform static
analysis? What are Python decorators? [ 2019-20] [2021-22]
2. Write short notes with example: The Programming Cycle for Python, Elements of Python, Type
Conversion in Python, Operator Precedence, and Boolean Expression. [2019-20]
3. How memory is managed in Python? Explain PEP 8. Write a Python program to print even length words
in a string. [ 2019-20]
4. What do you mean by Python IDE? Explain in detail. [2021-22]
5. Explain all the Conditional statement in Python using small code example. [ 2019-20]
6. Explain Expression Evaluation & Float Representation with example. Write a Python Program for How
to check if a given number is Fibonacci number. [ 2019-20] [2021-22]
7. Explain the purpose and working of loops. Discuss Break and continue with example. Write a Python
program to convert time from 12 hour to 24-hour format. [2019-20]
8. Write a python program to construct following pattern
*
**
***
****
*****
****
***
**
* [2021-22]
9. Discuss function in python with its parts and scope. Explain with example. (Take Simple calculator with
add, subtract, Division and Multiplication). [ 2019-20]
10. Explain higher order function with respect to lambda expression. Write a Python code to Count
occurrences of an element in a list. [ 2019-20]
11. Explain Unpacking Sequences, Mutable Sequences, and List Comprehension with example. Write a
program to sort list of dictionaries by values in Python – Using lambda function. [19-20][21-22][23-24]
12. Write a Python function removekth (s, k) that takes as input a string S and an integer k>=0 and removes
the character at index k. If k is beyond the length of S, the whole of S is retuned. For example.
removekth("PYTHON",1) returns "PTHON"
removekth("PYTHON", 3)returns "PYTON"
removekth("PYTHON", 0) returns "PYTHON"
removekth("PYTHON", 20) returns "PYTHON" [2020-2021]
13. Write a function less than(1st, k) to return list of numbers less 10 than k from a list 1st. The function must
List comprehension. Example:
lessthan ([1, 2, 0, 5, -31, returns [-2, -3] [2020-2021]
14. Write a program factors (N) that returns a list of all positive divisors of N (N-1). For example: factors (6)
returns [1,2,3,6]
factors (1) returns [1]
factors(13) returns [1,13] [2020-2021]
15. Write a Python program to change a given string to a new string where the first and last chars have been
exchanged [2021-22]
16. Write a Python program to add an item in a tuple. [2021-22]
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17. Discuss File I/O in python. How to perform open, read, write, and close into a file? Write a Python
program to read a file line-by-line store it into a variable. [ 2019-20]
18. Discuss Exceptions and Assertions in python. How to handle Exceptions with Try-Finally? Explain 5
Built-in Exceptions with example. [ 2019-20] [21-22]
19. Write a Python function average to compute the average of a list of numbers. [2020-2021]
20. How can you create python file that can be imported as a library as well as run as a standalone script?
[2020-2021]
21. Describe the difference between
Import library
And
From library import *
When used in python program . here library is some python library [2020-2021]
22. How can you randomize the items of a list in place in Python? [2021-22]
23. How to create and import a module in Python? [2021-22]
24. Explain the algorithm Programming Sieve of Eratosthene used in Python programming [2021-22]
25. Demonstrate five different built in functions used in the string. Write a program to check whether a
string is a palindrome or not. [2022-2023]
26. Develop a program to calculate the reverse of any entered number. [2022-2023]
27. Explain the list Comprehension with any suitable example. [2022-2023]
28. Explain the lambda function. How it is helpful in the higher order function. Explain map() function
with a suitable example. [2022-2023]
29. Discuss the different types of argument-passing methods in python. Explain the variable length
argument with any suitable example. [2022-2023]
30. Demonstrate the file handling procedure in detail. Write a python code to create a file with ‘P.txt’ name
and write your name and father’s name in this file and then read this file to print it [2022-2023]
31. Discuss various categories of operators in python. Find and explain stepwise solution of following
expressions if a=3, b=5, c=10.
i) a &b<<2//5**2+c^b
ii) b>>a**2<<2 >> b**2^c**3 [2022-2023]
32. Explain history and features of python while comparing python version 2 and 3. [2022-2023]
33. Write a program that accepts sequence of lines as input and prints the lines after making all characters
in the sentence capitalized.
e.g. If Input:
Hello world
Practice makes perfect
Then, Output:
HELLO WORLD
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
34. Illustrate different list slicing construct for the following operation on the following list:
L=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
1. Return a list of numbers starting from the last to second item of the list.
2. Return a list that start from 3rd item to second last item.
3. Return a list that has only even position elements of list L to List M.
4. Return a list that starts from the middle of list L.
5. Return a list that reverses all the elements starting from element at indexed 0 to middle index only
and return the entire list.
6. Divide the each element of the list by 2 and replace it with the remainder. [2023-2024]
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35. Construct a function perfect_square(number) that return a number if it is a perfect square otherwise it
returns -1.
For example:
perfect_square(1) returns 1
perfect_square(2) returns -1 [2023-2024]
36. Contruct a program to change the contents of the file by reversing each character separated by comma:
Hello!!
Output
H,e,l,l,o,!,! [2023-2024]
37. Construct a plot for following dataset using matplotlib:

Food Calories Potassium Fat

Meat 250 40 8

Banana 130 55 5

Avocados 140 20 3

Sweet 120 30 6
Potatoes
Spinach 20 40 1

Watermelon 20 32 1.5

Coconut water 10 10 0

Beans 50 26 2

Legumes 40 25 15

Tomato 19 20 2.5
[2023-2024]

38. Determine a python function removenth(s,n) that takes an input a string and an integer n>= 0 and
removes a character at index n. if n is beyond the length of s then whole s is returned.
For example
removenth(“MANGO”,1) return MNGO
removenth(“MANGO”,3) return MANO [2023-2024]
39. Construct a program that accepts a comma separated sequence of words as input and prints the words in
a comma-seperated sequence after sorting them alphabetically.
Suppose the following input is supplied to the program :
without, hello, bag, world
Output:
bag, hello, without, world [2023-2024]

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40. A website requires the users to input username and password t I password to register. Construct a
program to check the validity of password input by users.
Following are the criteria for checking the password:
1. At least 1 letter between [a-2]
2. At least 1 number between [0-9]
3. At least I letter between [A-Z]
4. At least 1 character from [$#@]
5. Minimum length of transaction password: 6
6. Maximum length of transaction password: 12
Your program should accept a sequence of comma separated passwords and will check them according
to the above criteria. Passwords that match the criteria are to be printed, each separated by a comma.
[2023-24]
41. Construct a function ret smaller(1) that returns smallest list from a nested list. If two lists have same
length then return the first list that is encountered. For example:
ret smaller([[-2, -1, 0, 0.12, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8, 9, 10], [11, 12, 13, 14, 15]]) returns [3,4,5]
ret smaller([[-2,-1,0,0.12, 1, 2], ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8, 9, 10], [11, 12, 13, 14, 15]]) returns [6, 7,
8, 9, 10] [2023-2024]
42. Construct following filters:
1. Filter all the numbers
2. Filter all the strings starting with a vowel
3. Filter all the strings that contains any of the following noun: Agra, Ramesh, Tomato, Patna.
Create a program that implements these filters to clean the text. [2023-2024]
43. Change all the numbers in the file to text. Construct a program for the same.
Example:
Given 2 integer numbers, return their product only if the product is equal to or lower than 10.
And the result should be:
Given two integer numbers, return their product only if the product is equal to or lower than one zero
[2023-2024]
44. Construct a program which accepts a sequence of words separated by whitespace as file input. Print the
words composed of digits only. [2023-2024]
45. Construct a program to read cities.csv dataset, remove last column and save it in an array. Save the last
column to another array. Plot the first two columns [2023-2024]
46. Design a GUI based Calculator which includes functionality addition, subtraction, Multiplication,
division and clear. Using tkinter.

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