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901.

What is the output of the code shown below? '%s' %((1.23,),)

A. ‘(1.23,)’
B. 1.23,
C. (,1.23)
D. ‘1.23’
Answer» B. 1.23,
Discussion
902.

What is the output of the code shown below? '%.2f%s' % (1.2345, 99)

A. ‘1.2345’, ‘99’
B. ‘1.2399’
C. ‘1.234599’
D. 1.23, 99
Answer» C. ‘1.234599’
Discussion
903.

The output of the code shown below is: '{0:f}, {1:2f}, {2:05.2f}'.format(1.23456, 1.23456, 1.23456)

A. Error
B. ‘1.234560, 1.22345, 1.23’
C. No output
D. ‘1.234560, 1.234560, 01.23’
Answer» E.
Discussion
904.

What is the output of the code shown below? 'The {} side {1} {2}'.format('bright', 'of', 'life')

A. Error
B. ‘The bright side of life’
C. ‘The {bright} side {of} {life}’
D. No output
Answer» B. ‘The bright side of life’
Discussion
905.

What is the output of the code shown below? D=dict(p='san', q='foundry') '{p}{q}'.format(**D)

A. Error
B. sanfoundry
C. san foundry
D. {‘san’, ‘foundry’}
Answer» C. san foundry
Discussion
906.

What is the output of the code shown below? '{a}{b}{a}'.format(a='hello', b='world')

A. ‘hello world’
B. ‘hello’ ‘world’ ‘hello’
C. ‘helloworldhello’
D. ‘hello’ ‘hello’ ‘world’
Answer» D. ‘hello’ ‘hello’ ‘world’
Discussion
907.

What is the output of the following code? hex(255), int('FF', 16), 0xFF

A. [0xFF, 255, 16, 255]
B. (‘0xff’, 155, 16, 255)
C. Error
D. (‘0xff’, 255, 255)
Answer» E.
Discussion
908.

Fill in the blanks: The formatting method {1:

A. first, right
B. second, left
C. first, left
D. second, right
Answer» C. first, left
Discussion
909.

What is the output of the code shown below? l=list('HELLO') p=l[0], l[-1], l[1:3] 'a={0}, b={1}, c={2}'.format(*p)

A. Error
B. “a=’H’, b=’O’, c=(E, L)”
C. “a=H, b=O, c=[‘E’, ‘L’]”
D. Junk value
Answer» D. Junk value
Discussion
910.

What is the output of the code shown? l=list('HELLO') 'first={0[0]}, third={0[2]}'.format(l)

A. ‘first=H, third=L’
B. ‘first=0, third=2’
C. Error
D. ‘first=0, third=L’
Answer» B. ‘first=0, third=2’
Discussion
911.

What is the output of the code shown below? '{0:.2f}'.format(1.234)

A. ‘ff, 255’
B. 255, 255’
C. ‘15f, 15f’
D. Error
Answer» B. 255, 255’
Discussion
912.

What is the output of the code shown? '{a}, {0}, {abc}'.format(10, a=2.5, abc=[1, 2])

A. Error
B. ‘2.5, 10, [1, 2]’
C. 2.5, 10, 1, 2
D. 10, 2.5, [1, 2]’
Answer» C. 2.5, 10, 1, 2
Discussion
913.

What is the output of the code shown below? t = '%(a)s, %(b)s, %(c)s' t % dict(a='hello', b='world', c='universe')

A. hello, world, universe’
B. ‘hellos, worlds, universes’
C. Error
D. hellos, world, universe
Answer» B. ‘hellos, worlds, universes’
Discussion
914.

What is the output of the code shown? s='%s, %s & %s' s%('mumbai', 'kolkata', 'delhi')

A. mumbai kolkata & delhi
B. Error
C. No output
D. mumbai, kolkata & delhi’
Answer» E.
Discussion
915.

The output of the code shown below is: s='{0}, {1}, and {2}' s.format('hello', 'good', 'morning')

A. hello good and morning’
B. ‘hello, good, morning’
C. hello, good, and morning’
D. Error
Answer» D. Error
Discussion
916.

What is the output of the code shown? a='hello' q=10 vars()

A. {‘a’ : ‘hello’, ‘q’ : 10, ……..plus built-in names set by Python….}
B. {……Built in names set by Python……}
C. {‘a’ : ‘hello’, ‘q’ : 10}
D. Error
Answer» B. {……Built in names set by Python……}
Discussion
917.

What is the output of the code shown? x=3.3456789 '%s' %x, str(x)

A. Error
B. (‘3.3456789’, ‘3.3456789’)
C. (3.3456789, 3.3456789)
D. (‘3.3456789’, 3.3456789)
Answer» C. (3.3456789, 3.3456789)
Discussion
918.

What is the output of the code shown below? x=3.3456789 '%-6.2f | %05.2f | %+06.1f' %(x, x, x)

A. ‘3.35 | 03.35 | +003.3’
B. ‘3.3456789 | 03.3456789 | +03.3456789’
C. Error
D. ‘3.34 | 03.34 | 03.34+’
Answer» B. ‘3.3456789 | 03.3456789 | +03.3456789’
Discussion
919.

What is the output of the code shown? x=3.3456789 '%f | %e | %g' %(x, x, x)

A. Error
B. ‘3.3456789 | 3.3456789+00 | 3.345678
C. 3.345678 | 3.345678e+0 | 3.345678’
D. 3.345679 | 3.345679e+00 | 3.34568’
Answer» E.
Discussion
920.

What is the output of the code shown below if the system date is 18th August, 2016? x=1234 res='integers:...%d...%-6d...%06d' %(x, x, x) res

A. ‘integers:…1234…1234 …001234’
B. ‘integers…1234…1234…123400’
C. integers:… 1234…1234…001234’
D. ‘integers:…1234…1234…001234’
Answer» B. ‘integers…1234…1234…123400’
Discussion
921.

The output of which of the codes shown below will be: “There are 4 blue birds.”?

A. There are %g %d birds.’ %4 %blue
B. There are %d %s birds.’ %(4, blue)
C. ‘There are %s %d birds.’ %[4, blue]
D. There are %d %s birds.’ 4, blue
Answer» C. ‘There are %s %d birds.’ %[4, blue]
Discussion
922.

The expression shown below results in an error. State whether this statement is true or false. print("-%5d0",989)

A. Error
B. 1 hello you 4.0
C. 1 hello 4 you
D. 1 4 hello you
Answer» D. 1 4 hello you
Discussion
923.

What is the output of this expression if x=22.19? print("%5.2f"%x)

A. 22.1900
B. 22.00000
C. 22.19
D. 22.20
Answer» D. 22.20
Discussion
924.

What is the result of the expression shown below if x=56.236? print("%.2f"%x)

A. 56.00
B. 56.24
C. 56.23
D. 0056.236
Answer» C. 56.23
Discussion
925.

What is the output of this expression if X= -122? print("-%06d"%x)

A. -000122
B. 000122
C. –00122
D. -00122
Answer» D. -00122
Discussion
926.

Which of the following formatting options can be used in order to add ‘n’ blank spaces after a given string ‘S’?

A. print(“-ns”%S)
B. print(“-ns”%S)
C. print(“%ns”%S)
D. print(“%-ns”%S)
Answer» E.
Discussion
927.

What is the output of the following expression if X=345? print(“%06d”%X)

A. 345000
B. 000345
C. 000000345
D. 345000000
Answer» C. 000000345
Discussion
928.

What is the output of the following expression if x=456? print("%-06d"%x)

A. 000456
B. 456000
C. 456
D. error
Answer» E.
Discussion
929.

Consider the snippet of code shown below and predict the output. X=”san-foundry” print(“%56s”,X)

A. 56 blank spaces before san-foundry
B. 56 blank spaces before san and foundry
C. 56 blank spaces after san-foundry
D. no change
Answer» B. 56 blank spaces before san and foundry
Discussion
930.

What is the output of the code snippet shown below? X=”hi” print(“05d”%X)

A. 00000hi
B. 000hi
C. hi000
D. error
Answer» E.
Discussion
931.

The output of the line of code shown below is: not(1030)

A. True
B. False
C. Error
D. No output
Answer» C. Error
Discussion
932.

Which of the following Boolean expressions is not logically equivalent to the other three?

A. not(-6<0 or-6>10)
B. -6>=0 and -6<=10
C. not(-6<10 or-6==10)
D. not(-6>10 or-6==10)
Answer» E.
Discussion
933.

What is the output of the code shown below? if (9 < 0) and (0 < -9): print("hello") elif (9 > 0) or False: print("good") else: print("bad")

A. error
B. hello
C. good
D. bad
Answer» D. bad
Discussion
934.

What is the output of the code shown below? l=[1, 0, 2, 0, 'hello', '', []] list(filter(bool, l))

A. Error
B. [1, 0, 2, 0, ‘hello’, ”, []]
C. [1, 0, 2, ‘hello’, ”, []]
D. [1, 0, 2, ‘hello’, ”, []]
Answer» E.
Discussion
935.

What is the output of the code shown? ['f', 't'][bool('spam')]

A. t
B. f
C. No output
D. Error
Answer» B. f
Discussion
936.

What is the output of the code shown below? not(3>4) not(1&1)

A. True True
B. True False
C. False True
D. False False
Answer» C. False True
Discussion
937.

What is the output of the snippet of code shown below? ['hello', 'morning'][bool('')]

A. error
B. no output
C. hello
D. morning
Answer» D. morning
Discussion
938.

The output of the snippet of code shown below? bool(‘False’) bool()

A. True True
B. False True
C. False False
D. True False
Answer» E.
Discussion
939.

What is the value of the expression: ~100?

A. 101
B. -101
C. 100
D. -100
Answer» C. 100
Discussion
940.

What is the two’s complement of -44?

A. 1011011
B. 11010100
C. 11101011
D. 10110011
Answer» C. 11101011
Discussion
941.

Which of the following expressions can be used to multiply a given number ‘a’ by 4?

A. a<<2
B. a<<4
C. a<<4
D. a>>4
Answer» B. a<<4
Discussion
942.

What is the value of this expression: bin(10-2)+bin(12^4)

A. 0b10000
B. 0b10001000
C. 0b1000b1000
D. 0b10000b1000
Answer» E.
Discussion
943.

Any odd number on being AND-ed with ________ always gives 1. Hint: Any even number on being AND-ed with this value always gives 0.

A. 10
B. 2
C. 1
D. 0
Answer» D. 0
Discussion
944.

The result of the expression shown below is: 4^12

A. 2
B. 4
C. 8
D. 12
Answer» D. 12
Discussion
945.

Bitwise _________ gives 1 if either of the bits is 1 and 0 when both of the bits are 1.

A. OR
B. AND
C. XOR
D. NOT
Answer» D. NOT
Discussion
946.

The one’s complement of 110010101 is:

A. The one’s complement of 110010101 is:
B. 110010101
C. 001101011
D. 110010100
Answer» B. 110010101
Discussion
947.

What is the result of the expression: 0x35 | 0x75

A. 115
B. 116
C. 117
D. 118
Answer» D. 118
Discussion
948.

What is the value of this expression? bin(0x8)

A. ‘0bx1000’
B. 8
C. 1000
D. ‘0b1000’
Answer» E.
Discussion
949.

Which of the following represents the bitwise XOR operator?

A. &
B. ^
C. |
D. !
Answer» C. |
Discussion
950.

What is the result of the expression if x=15 and y=12: x & y

A. b1101
B. 0b1101
C. 12
D. 1101
Answer» D. 1101
Discussion