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B.TECH
(SEM III) THEORY EXAMINATION 2020-21
PYTHON PROGRAMMING
Time: 3 Hours Total Marks: 100
Note: 1. Attempt all Sections. If require any missing data; then choose suitably.

SECTION A
1. Attempt all questions in brief.
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a. What is the use of “raise” statement? Describe with an example. 2 5

b. Write a recursive Python function “rprint” to print all elements in a 2 3

list in reverse.
rprint([]) prints nothing
rprint([1,2,3]) prints 3 2 1

c. Describe the behavior of “range (s, e)” in Python. 2 3

d. Explain the use of “with” construct in Python with an example 2 5

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e. Which of the following statements produce an error in Python? 2 1
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x, y, z = 1,2,3 # s1

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a, b = 4,5,6 # s2

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u = 7,8,9 # s3

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g. How do you read an input from a user in Python to be used as an integer 2 5

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in the rest of the program? Explain with an example.

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h. Consider the program: 2 1

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x = ['12', 'hello', 456]

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x[0] *= 3
x[1][1] = 'bye'
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(lambda x,y : y - 2*x) (1, 11)

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j. Explain the use of lt function in a class Python? 2 5

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SECTION B
2. Attempt any three of the following:
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a. Write a Python function removekth(s, k) that takes as input a 10 5
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 returned. For example,

removekth(“PYTHON”, 1) returns “PTHON”

removekth(“PYTHON”, 3) returns “PYTON”
removekth(“PYTHON”, 0) returns “YTHON”
removekth(“PYTHON”, 20) returns “PYTHON”

b. Write a Python function average to compute the average of a list of 10 3

numbers. The function must use try-except to handle the case
where the input list is empty. Further, in that case the average for the
empty list should be set to 0.0 using the except block.

c. Describe the differences between a linear search and a binary search? 10 5

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d. Write a function lessthan(lst, k) to return list of numbers less 10
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than k from a list lst. The function must use list comprehension.

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lessthan([1, -2, 0, 5, -3], 0) returns [-2, -3]

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e. Write a program factors(N) that returns a list of all positive divisors 10 2
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factors(1) returns [1]
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factors(13) returns [1,13]

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3. Attempt any one part of the following:

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a. How can you create Python file that can be imported as a library as well 10 5
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as run as a standalone script?

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4. Attempt any one part of the following:
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a. Write a function makePairs that takes as input two lists of equal 10 2
length and returns a single list of same length where k-th element is the
pair of k-th elements from the input lists. For example,

makePairs([1,3,5,7],[2,4,6,8])
returns [(1,2),(3,4),(5,6),(7,8)]
makePairs([],[])
returns []

b. Show an example where both Keyword arguments and Default 10 4

arguments are used for the same function in a call. Show both the
definition of the function and its call.

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a. Explain why Python is considered an interpreted language. 10 1

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b. What is short circuit evaluation? What is printed by the following 10 1

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Python program?

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6. Attempt any one part of the following:
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a. Write a Python program, triangle(N), that prints a right triangle 10 3
having base and height consisting of N * symbols as shown in these
examples:

triangle(3) prints:
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triangle(5) prints:
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*****

b. Write a Python program, countSquares(N), that returns the count 10 4

of perfect squares less than or equal to N (N>1). For example:

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# Only 1 is a perfect square <= 1

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countSquares(5) returns 2

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countSquares(55) returns 7
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# 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49 <= 55

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a. Write a Python function, alternating(lst), that takes as 10 4

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argument a sequence lst. The function returns True if the elements

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in lst are alternately odd and even, starting with an even number.
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alternating([10, 9, 9, 6]) returns False

alternating([10, 15, 8]) returns True
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alternating([]) returns True
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argument a sequence s and integers x, k (k>0). The function returns
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True if there are at most k occurrences of x in s. Otherwise it returns

False. For example:
searchMany([10, 17, 15, 12], 15, 1) returns True
searchMany([10, 12, 12, 12], 12, 2) returns False
searchMany([10, 12, 15, 11], 17, 18) returns True

 
 

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