Reviewed Basic datatypes LO.
Objective Questions
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.. A mininum of 8 questions here (along with answers)
1. Given the list week::
["sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat"]
``"Sun" in week`` returns True or False?
Answer: False
#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[4:]
Answer: ``ndrome``
#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[-4]
Answer: ``r``
#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[4::-1]
Answer: ``nilap``
#. Given the string ``s = "palindrome"``, what is returned by s[-4:]
Answer: ``rome``
#. Given a string ``s = "this is a string"``, how will you change it
to ``"this isn't a list"`` ?
Answer::
s = s.replace("string", "list")
s = s.replace("is", "isn't")
#. Given a string ``s = "this is a string"``, how will you change it
to ``"THIS ISN'T A LIST"`` ?
Answer::
s = s.replace("string", "list")
s = s.replace("is", "isn't")
s = s.upper()
#. Given a line from a CSV file (comma separated values), convert it
to a space separated line.
Answer: line.replace(',', ' ')
#. Given the string "F.R.I.E.N.D.S" in s, obtain the "friends".
Answer: ``s[::2].lower()``
Larger Questions
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.. A minimum of 2 questions here (along with answers)
1. Given the string friends, obtain the string "F.R.I.E.N.D.S".
Answer::
s = "friends"
s = s.upper()
s_list = list(s)
".".join(s_list)
2. Given a string with double quotes and single quotes. Interchange
all the double quotes to single quotes and vice-versa. [Solve it
for this particular string. Not a generic one. Solve it for a
generic string, if you know how to iterate over a list.]
s = """ "Isn't this a 'simple' task?" "No, it isn't." "Yes! it is." """
Answer::
s = s.replace('"', '#')
s = s.replace("'", '"')
s = s.replace('#', "'")
.. depends on ``for`` which is not an LO dependency a generic string.
For generic string
Answer::
S = []
s_list = s.split("'")
for s_s in s_list:
S.append(s_s.replace('"', "'"))
s = '"'.join(S)