PYTHON PROGRAMMING

Chapter 1: Introduction and Basics

• Topic: The Programming Cycle for Python, Python IDE, Interacting with
Python Programs, Elements of Python, Type Conversion
• 20-21(1.a): What is the use of “raise” statement? Describe with an
example.
• 21-22(1.a): Explain the Programming Cycle for Python in detail.
• 22-23(1.a): Explain the Programming Cycle for Python in detail.
• 23-24(1.f): Explain why the program generates an error.
x = [‘12’, ’hello’, 456] x[0] *= 3 x[1][1]=’bye’
• 23-24(1.e): Describe the difference between linspace and argspace.
• 20-21(1.g): 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.
• 21-22(2.a): What do you mean by Python IDE? Explain in detail.
• 23-24(1.b): Differentiate between / and // operator with an example
• 23-24(1.g): Describe about different functions of matplotlib and
pandas.
• Topic: Basics: Expressions, Assignment Statement, Arithmetic Operators,
Operator Precedence, Boolean Expression
• 20-21(1.e): 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 (List all the
statements that have error.)
• 20-21(1.f): Explain the role of precedence with an example.
• 21-22(1.b): What will be the output of the following Python code?
i=0
 while i< 3:
print(i)
i += 1
else:
print(0)
• 21-22(1.c): What will be the output of the following Python code?
• 23-24(1.c): 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.”))
• 20-21(1.h): Consider the program:
x,y,z = 1,2,3 #s1
a,b = 4,5,6 #s2
u = 7,8,9 #s3 Explain why this program generates an error.
• 20-21(1.i): What is the output of the following program?
• 20-21(5.b): What is short circuit evaluation? What is printed by the
following Python program? a = 0 b = 2 c = 3 x = c or a print(x)
Chapter 2: Conditionals and Loops
• Topic: Conditional statement in Python (if-else statement, its working and
execution), Nested-if statement and Elif statement in Python, Expression
Evaluation & Float Representation
 • 22-23(2.b): Explain the following loops with a flow diagram, syntax,
and suitable examples. I) For II) while
• 23-24(4.b): Explore the working of while, and for loop with examples.
• Topic: Loops: Purpose and working of loops, While loop including its
working, For Loop, Nested Loops, Break and Continue
• 20-21(1.c): Describe the behavior of “range (s, e)" in Python.
• 22-23(2.c): Explain the continue, break, and pass statements with a
suitable example.
• 21-22(4.a): Write a Python program to construct the following
pattern, using a nested for loop.
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Chapter 3: Function and Strings
• Topic: Function: Parts of A Function, Execution Of A Function, Keyword and
Default Arguments, Scope Rules
• 20-21(1.b): Write a recursive Python function “rprint" to print all
elements in a list in reverse.
 • 20-21(4.b): 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.
• 22-23(4.a): Discuss the different types of argument-passing methods
in python. Explain the variable length argument with any suitable
example.
• 22-23(2.a): Demonstrate five different built in functions used in the
string. Write a program to check whether a string is a palindrome or
not.
• 23-24(1.d): How to use the functions defined in library.py in main.py
• 23-24(2.c): Construct a function perfect_square(number) that
returns a number if it is a perfect square otherwise it returns -1. For
example: perfect_square(1) returns 1 perfect_square (2) returns -1
• 23-24(2.d): Construct a program to change the contents of the file by
reversing each character separated by comma: Hello!! Output
H,e,l,l,o,!,!
• 23-24(5.a): 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]
• Topic: Strings: Length of the string and perform Concatenation and Repeat
operations in it, Indexing and Slicing of Strings
• 20-21(2.a): 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 returned. For
example,
removekth(“PYTHON”, 1) returns “PTHON”
 removekth(“PYTHON”, 3) returns “PYTON”
removekth(“PYTHON”, 0) returns “YTHON”
removekth(“PYTHON”, 20) returns “PYTHON”
• 22-23(1.b): Describe the concept of List Slicing with a suitable
example.
• 22-23(3.a): Illustrate Unpacking tuples, mutable sequences, and
string concatenation with examples
• 23-24(2.b): Illustrate different list slicing constructs for the following
operations 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 the list L.
5. Return a list that reverses all the elements starting from element
at index 0 to middle index only and return the entire list.
Divide each element of the list by 2 and replace it with the
remainder.
• 21-22(5.a): Write a Python program to change a given string to a new
string where the first and last chars have been exchanged.
• Topic: Python Data Structure : Tuples, Unpacking Sequences, Lists, Mutable
Sequences, List Comprehension, Sets, Dictionaries
• 21-22(2.c): Explain Tuples and Unpacking Sequences in Python Data
Structure.
• 22-23(1.g): What is a dictionary in Python?
 • 22-23(2.e): Explain the list Comprehension with any suitable
example.
• 23-24(1.a): Describe the concept of list comprehension with a
suitable example
• Topic: Higher Order Functions: Treat functions as first class Objects, Lambda
Expressions
• 22-23(3.b): Explain the lambda function. How it is helpful in the
higher order function. Explain map() function with a suitable
example.
• 20-21(1.i): What is the output of the following program?
Chapter 4: Sieve of Eratosthenes & File I/O
• Topic: Sieve of Eratosthenes: generate prime numbers with the help of an
algorithm given by the Greek Mathematician named Eratosthenes, whose
algorithm is known as Sieve of Eratosthenes
• 21-22(6.b): Explain the algorithm Sieve of Eratosthene used in Python
Programming.
• 22-23(5.b): Demonstrate the ‘Sieve of Eratosthenes’theorem and
write the python function to print prime numbers between 1 to 100.
• Topic: File I/O: File input and output operations in Python Programming,
Exceptions and Assertions Modules : Introduction, Importing Modules
• 20-21(1.d): Explain the use of “with” construct in Python with an
example program.
• 21-22(2.d): What are File input and output operations in Python
Programming?
• 21-22(6.a): How to create and import a module in Python?
• 22-23(1.c): Show the way to import the module in python.
 • 20-21(3.a): How can you create Python file that can be imported as a
library as well as run as a standalone script?
• 20-21(3.b): Describe the difference between import library and from
library import * when used in a python program. Here library is some
python library.
• 22-23(5.a): 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.
• 23-24(6.a): 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
• 23-24(6.b): Construct a program which accepts a sequence of words
separated by whitespace as file input. Print the words composed of
digits only.
• Topic: Abstract Data Types : Abstract data types and ADT interface in Python
Programming
• 21-22(1.d): How do we define an Interface for an ADT?
• 21-22(1.e): How do you perform a search in Python?
Chapter 5: Iterators & Recursion
• Topic: Iterators & Recursion: Recursive Fibonacci, Tower Of Hanoi
• 21-22(2.e): Solve the Tower of Hanoi problem for n= 3 disk and show
all the steps.
• 22-23(7.b): Summarize the 'Tower of Hanoi' puzzle and write its
recursive function to implement it.
• 21-22(7.a): Write a Recursive function in python
BinarySearch(Arr,1,R,X) to search the given element X to be searched
 from the List Arr having R elements, where 1 represent slower bound
and R represents the upper bound.
• Topic: Search : Simple Search and Estimating Search Time, Binary Search
and Estimating Binary Search Time
• 20-21(2.c): Describe the differences between a linear search and a
binary search?
• 22-23(6.b): Explain Binary search with its python code and
complexity.
• Topic: Sorting & Merging : Selection Sort, Merge List, Merge Sort, Higher
Order Sort
• 21-22(3.a): Write a program in Python to execute the Selection sort
algorithm.
• 22-23(6.a): Develop and write the python code of selection sort to
sort 41,65,43,91,12,14,62 elements. Also, explain its complexity.
• 21-22(7.b): Explain the terms Merge List and Merge Sort in Python
Programming.
• Topic: String Manipulation
• 23-24(3.a): 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) returns MNGO
removenth(“MANGO”,3) returns MANO
• 23-24(3.b): Construct a program that accepts a comma separated
sequence of words as input and prints the words in a comma-
separated sequence after sorting them alphabetically. Suppose the
following input is supplied to the program: without, hello, bag, world
Then, the output should be: bag, hello, without, world
• Topic: Exception Handling
• 20-21(2.b): Write a Python function average to compute the average
of a list of 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.
• 22-23(7.a): Explain the importance of Exception handling in any
object-oriented programming language. Explain try exceptions and
finally block with any suitable example.
• Topic: List Manipulation
• 20-21(2.d): Write a function lessthan(lst, k) to return list of numbers
less than k from a list 1st. The function must use list comprehension.
• 20-21(2.e): 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]
• 20-21(4.a): 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 []
• 23-24(5.b): 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.
 • 21-22(5.b): Write a Python program to add an item in a tuple.
• 23-24(2.e): Construct a plot for following dataset using matplotlib :
Refer question
• 23-24(7.a): 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.
• 23-24(7.b): Design a calculator with the following buttons and
functionalities like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and
clear.

Missing question
• 23-24(4.a): A website requires the users to input username and 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-z]
2. At least 1 number between [0-9]
3. At least 1 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

• 22-23(4.b): Write short notes on the following with a suitable example I) Encapsulation II)
Inheritance

• 22-23(1.d): Differentiate between Python Arrays and lists?

• 22-23(1.e): Define floor division with an example

• 22-23(1.f): Explain the difference between ‘append’ and ‘extend’ in Python?

• 22-23(1.h): what is object -oriented programming (OOP) in python? Give an example
• 22-23(1.i): what will be the output of the following python code
Def count(s):
vowels =”AEIOUaeiou”
count =0
For c in s :
If c in vowels:
count += 1
return count
print(count(“I Love India”))
• 22-23(1.j): what will be the output of the following code ?
List1 = ['M', 'o', 'n', 'k', 'y']
print("@".join(list1))

• 21-22(2.b): How can you randomize the items of a list in place in Python?
• 20-21(5.a),21-22(3.b): Explain why python is considered an interpreted language.