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-Objective Questions
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-
-.. A mininum of 8 questions here.
-
-1. What function is used to open a file?
-
- Answer: ``open``
-
-#. The ``open`` function returns a
-
- a. string
- #. list
- #. file object
- #. function
-
- Answer: file object
-
-#. ``open`` function opens a file by default in write mode. T or F?
-
- Answer: False
-
-#. The ``read`` method reads a file and returns the contents
-
- a. string
- #. list
- #. file object
- #. None of the above
-
- Answer: string
-
-#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like
- ::
-
- Hello, World!
-
- What is the value of content, at the end of this code block::
-
- f = open('hello.txt')
- pre_content = f.read()
- content = f.read()
- f.close()
-
- Answer: It is a null string.
-
-#. The following code block prints each line of ``hello.txt``::
-
- f = open('hello.txt')
- for line in f.read():
- print line
-
- True or False?
-
- Answer: False
-
-#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like
- ::
-
- Hello, World!
-
- What is the output of ::
-
- f = open('hello.txt')
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- f.close()
-
- Answer: Hello, World! is printed once.
-
- .. The actual answer should talk about blank lines, but I'm
- .. not sure if we should get into such detail.
-
- .. Should this be made a multiple-choice?
-
- .. #[[Anoop: I think it will better if we make this multiple
- choice]]
-
-#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like
- ::
-
- Hello, World!
-
- What is the output of ::
-
- f = open('hello.txt')
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- f.close()
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- f.close()
-
- Answer: Hello, World! is printed twice.
-
-#. Given a file with ``hello.txt``, which looks like
- ::
-
- Hello, World!
-
- What is the output of ::
-
- f = open('hello')
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- f.close()
-
- for line in f:
- print line
-
- f.close()
-
- Answer: IOError - No such file or directory: 'hello'
-
-
-Larger Questions
-----------------
-
-.. A minimum of 2 questions here.
-
-1. What does ``f.read(size)`` do?
-
-#. Print every alternate line of a file, starting at the first line.
-
-#. Print the file in reverse. Starting from the last line to the
- first.