Unit - 03 (Previous Year Questions)

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# Short Answers (2 Marks)

[1]. Define traversing of string . Give an example.

[2]. What are different methods used in deleting elements from dictionary ?

[3]. What are two properties of keys in dictionary ?

[4]. What are user-defined functions ? Give the syntax .

[5]. Define the return statement in a function. Give the syntax .

[6]. An email address is provided : [email protected] . Using tuple assignment , split the username
and domain from the email address.

[7]. Write a function called sumall that takes any number of arguments and returns their sum.

[8]. Give an examples for len , max , and min methods.

[9]. What are the types of arguments used for calling a function ?

[10]. What is slicing ? Also define the docstring in function .

[11]. What is the difference between list and tuples in Python ?

[12]. What are differences between Python arrays and lists ?

[13]. 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 #s3

[14]. Consider the program :

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

x[0]* = 3

x[1] [1] = 'bye'

Explain why this program generates an error.

[15]. What will be the output of the following Python code ?

def cube(x) :

return x * x * x

x = cube(3)
 print (x)

[16]. Explain the output of the following function .

def printalpha (abc_list , num_list) :

for char in abc_list :

for num in num_list :

print(char , num)

return

print(['a' , 'b' ,'c'] , [1 , 2, 3])

[17]. Describe the concept of List Slicing with a suitable example.

[18]. Explain the difference between 'append' and 'extend' in Python ?

[19]. What will be the output of the following Python code :

def count_1 (s) :

vowels = "AEIOUaeiou"

count = 0

for c in s :

if c in vowels :

count + = 1

return count

print (count1 ('I love India'))

[20]. What will be the output of the following code ?

list1 = [ 'M' ,'n' , 'k' , 'y' ]

print ("@".join(list1))

[21]. Compare list and Dictionary data structure .

[22]. What is Dictionary in Python ?

[23]. What are local variables and global variables in Python ?

[24]. Describe the concept of list comprehension with a suitable example.

[25]. What will be the output :

def count(s) :

for str in string.split() :

return s

print(count("Python is fun to learn. "))

# Long Answer (7 Marks )

[1]. Demonstrate five different built in functions used in the string. Write a program to check
whether a string is a palindrome or not .

[2]. Discuss list data structure of python . Explain various inbuilt methods of list with suitable
examples of each.

[3]. Explain the list comprehension with any suitable example .

[4]. Write a function lessthan (lst , k) to return list of numbers less than k from a list lst . The
function must use list comprehensions .

Example :

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

[5]. Defines tuples . How are tuples created in Python ?

[6]. Write a Python program to add an item in a tuple.

[7]. Compare list and dictionary data structure. Explain various dictionary methods with suitable
examples of each.

[8]. How can you randomize the items of a list in place in Python ?

[9]. Discuss the different types of argument-passing methods in Python . Explain the variable length
argument with any suitable example .

[10]. Show an example where both keyword arguments and Default arguments are used for the same
function in a call . Show both the definition of the function and its call.

[11]. Discuss functions in Python with its parts and scope . Explain with example. (Take simple
calculator with add , subtract , division and multiplication .)

[12]. Write a Python function removekth(s,k) that takes as input a string 'a' 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"

factors(6) returns [1,2,3,6]

factors(1) returns [1]

factors(13) returns [1,13]

[14]. Write a function makePairs that takes as input two lists of equal 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 [ ]

[15]. Explain higher-order function with respect to lambda expression. Write a Python code to count
occurrences of an element in a list.

[16]. Write a Python function , searchMany(s,x,k), that takes as argument a sequence s and integers
'x' , 'k' (k > 0). The function returns True if there are at most 'k' occurances 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 , 11 , 15, 12] , 10 , 1) returns True