IITM BS Week 8 Programming in Python Questions

01

What will be the value of the following expression after running the given code snippet? sorted(result['cat_1'] & result['cat_3'])

Comprehension

EASY

2 marks

31 August 2025

02

What will be the value of the following expression after running the given code snippet? len(result['cat_1'] | result['cat_2'] | result['cat_3']) Enter an integer as your answer.

Comprehension

MEDIUM

2 marks

31 August 2025

03

If result = categorize_numbers([1, 2, 10, 15, 20]), which of the following expression(s) would be evaluated as True?

Comprehension

HARD

2 marks

31 August 2025

04

Consider the following Python code snippet: At the end of execution, which of the following sets contains "apple"? ``` X = {"apple", "banana"} Y = {"banana", "cherry"} Z = {"cherry", "apple"} while "cherry" in Z: if "apple" in X: X, Y, Z = Y, Z, X if "banana" in Y: X, Y, Z = Z, X, Y ```

Single correct

MEDIUM

3 marks

13 April 2025

05

What will be the first line of output for track_assignments(10, [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])?

Comprehension

MEDIUM

1.5 marks

13 April 2025

06

For which set of arguments will track_assignments() return True?

Comprehension

MEDIUM

1.5 marks

13 April 2025

07

For which set of arguments will track_assignments() return False?

Comprehension

MEDIUM

1 marks

13 April 2025

08

Given below is the python code. What will be the length of variable named `tup`. Code Snippet s1, s2 = set(), set() s3 = s1 ``` s1, s2 = set(), set() s3 = s1 for i in range(7, 10, 2): s1.add(i) for i in range(6, 20, 3): s2.add(i) for i in range(18, 14, -1): s3.add(i) tup = tuple(s1 & s2 & s3) print(len(tup)) ```

Numerical

MEDIUM

3 marks

01 September 2024

09

Select error-free implementations of a program that reads and prints `input.txt` line by line. If the file doesn't exist, the program should terminate without raising any error. Option (A) try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') ``` try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') for line in f: print(line.strip()) except FileNotFoundError: print('File does not exist') ``` Option (B) try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') ``` try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') for line in f: print(line.strip()) except: print('File does not exist') ``` Option (C) try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') ``` try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') for line in f: print(line.strip()) except InvalidError: print('File does not exist') ``` Option (D) try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') ``` try: f = open('input.txt', 'r') for line in f: print(line.strip()) except FileNotFoundError: print('File does not exist') except: print('This is for all other errors that might come up') ```

Multiple correct

MEDIUM

3 marks

01 September 2024

10

What will be the value of `li` at the end of execution?

Comprehension

MEDIUM

1.5 marks

01 September 2024

11

What is the output of the following snippet of code? A = {1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 15, 18, 24} B = {2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 25, 30} C = set() ``` A = {1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 15, 18, 24} B = {2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15, 25, 30} C = set() for x in A: C.add(x) for x in B: if x in C: C.remove(x) print(C) ```

Single correct

EASY

3 marks

28 April 2024

12

Consider the following snippets of code: Code-1: T = (1, 2, 3) T.add(1) Code-2: S = set() S.append(1) Code-3: L = [ ] L = L + [1] Select the most appropriate statement.

Single correct

EASY

3 marks

24 December 2023

13

What will be the output of the following Python code? ``` def new_fun(a): s_l = [] while a != []: x = a[0] for i in a: if i < x: x = i a.remove(x) s_l.append(x) return s_l L = [6, 2, 9, 8] print(new_fun(L)) ```

Single correct

MEDIUM

4 marks

30 April 2023

14

The variable s is a set in which of the following options?

Multiple correct

EASY

3 marks

30 April 2023

15

Select all correct implementations of a function named unique that accepts a non-empty list L of integers as an argument. The function should remove all duplicate elements from the list L. Specifically, it should return a list L_uniq that retains the first occurrence (from the left) of each distinct element in the input list L.

Multiple correct

MEDIUM

4 marks

30 April 2023

16

What will function P(players, sportsname) return? ``` players = { 'cricket': ['Ravi', 'Ajay', 'Rahul', 'Rohit', 'Virat'], 'Football': ['Rahul', 'Abhishek', 'Arjun', 'Virat', 'Ajay'], 'Basketball': ['Ajay', 'Virat', 'Abhishek', 'Vijay', 'Sachin', 'kapil'] } def P(players, sportsname): Res = [] sports = [] for s in players: if s != sportsname: sports.append(s) for person in players[sportsname]: if person not in players[sports[0]]: if person not in players[sports[1]]: Res.append(person) return Res ```

Single correct

MEDIUM

3 marks

11 December 2022

17

Let us continue with the list nums. The list is said to feature a streak if the number 5 occurs at least five times in a row. streak is a function which accepts the list nums as argument and returns True if it has a streak, and False otherwise. Select the correct implementation of this function. sample test cases: nums = [1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 2, 10] -> True nums = [4, 5, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 2, 5] -> False nums = [10, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 6, 7, 8, 9] -> True

Comprehension

MEDIUM

5 marks

11 December 2022

18

Which of the following code blocks will execute without raising an error? **Code-1** ``` S = set() S.add(1) S.add(2) print(S[0]) ``` **Code-2** ``` D = {} D[0] = 'zero' D[0] = 'error' ```

Multiple correct

MEDIUM

3 marks

07 August 2022

19

update_status is a method of the class Book that updates the attribute best_seller to the Boolean literal True if the book has sold at least 1,000,000 copies and False otherwise. Select the correct implementation of this method.

Comprehension

EASY

3 marks

07 August 2022

20

What is the output of the following snippet of code? ``` books = [Book(1972, 345, 12345), Book(1987, 400, 1234567), Book(2001, 531, 1000002), Book(2011, 150, 2000000), Book(2013, 345, 3000214), Book(1943, 501, 5000134)] count = 0 for book in books: book.update_status() if book.best_seller and book.pages <= 500: count += 1 print(count) ```

Comprehension

MEDIUM

3 marks

07 August 2022

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