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Important Python Interview Questions and Practice Set - 3


1. What does an empty dictionary's code look like?

Ans: Two curly brackets:{}


2. What is the value of a dictionary value with the key 'foo' and the value 42?

Ans: {‘foo’:42}


3. What is the most significant distinction between a dictionary and a list?

Ans: The items in dictionary are unordered and in a list are ordered.


4. What happens if you try to access spam['foo'] if spam is {'bar': 100}?

Ans: We get a KeyError error.


5. If a dictionary is stored in spam, what is the difference between the expressions 'cat' in spam and 'cat' in spam.keys()?

Ans: There is no difference. The in operator checks whether a value exists as a key in the dictionary


6. If a dictionary is stored in spam, what is the difference between the expressions 'cat' in spam and 'cat' in spam.values()?

Ans: 'cat' in spam checks whether there is a 'cat' key in the dictionary, while 'cat' in spam.values() checks whether there is a value 'cat' for one of the keys in spam.


7. What is a shortcut for the following code?

if 'color' not in spam:

spam['color'] = 'black'

Ans: spam.setdefault('color', 'black')


8. How do you "pretty print" dictionary values using which module and function?

Ans: pprint.pprint()


9. What are escape characters, and how do you use them?

Ans: Escape characters represent characters in string values that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to type into code.


10. What do the escape characters n and t stand for?

Ans: \n is a newline; \t is a tab.


11. What is the way to include backslash characters in a string?

Ans: The \\ escape character will represent a backslash character.


12. The string "Howl's Moving Castle" is a correct value. Why isn't the single quote character in the word Howl's not escaped a problem?

Ans: The single quote in Howl's is fine because we’ve used double quotes to mark the beginning and end of the string.


13. How do you write a string of newlines if you don't want to use the n character?

Ans: Multiline strings allow you to use newlines in strings without the \n escape character


14. What are the values of the given expressions?

'Hello, world!'[1]

'Hello, world!'[0:5]

'Hello, world!'[:5]

'Hello, world!'[3:]

Ans: The expressions evaluate to the following:

• 'e'

• 'Hello'

• 'Hello'

• 'lo world


15. What are the values of the following expressions?

'Hello'.upper()

'Hello'.upper().isupper()

'Hello'.upper().lower()

Ans: The expressions evaluate to the following:

• 'HELLO'

• True

• 'hello'


16. What are the values of the following expressions?

'Remember, remember, the fifth of July.'.split()

'-'.join('There can only one.'.split())

Ans: 1>[‘Remember,’,’remember,’,’the’,’fifth’,’of’,’july’]

2>’there-can-only-one’


17. What are the methods for right-justifying, left-justifying, and centering a string?

Ans: The rjust(), ljust(), and center() string methods, respectively


18. What is the best way to remove whitespace characters from the start or end?

Ans: The lstrip() and rstrip() methods remove whitespace from the left and right ends of a string, respectively



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