CIS 312 Dr. Childs Python Exam 1

End-of-line comments begin with the __ symbol.

#

___ is the format operator.

%

In Python, ___ is the exponentioniation operator.

**

The escape sequence ___ is the new line character.

/n

What is the output for this loop? for count in range (4): print count

0 1 2 3

A __ must follow the else in an if-else statement.

:

In Python, a _ ends the loop headers.

:

To extract a substring, the programmer places a __ in the subscript.

:

The string function ____ returns a copy of the string, centered within the given number of columns.

center

The ______ file system function changes the current working directory.

chdir

The ____ function is the inverse of the ord function.

chr

In Python, you can write a print statement that includes two or more expressions, separated by ______.

commas

The string function ____ returns the number of non-overlapping occurrences of a substring in the string.

count

Unlike an integer which cannot be factored into more primitive parks, a string is a ___________.

data structure

The _______ file system function returns the path of the current working directory.

getcwd

Python is an ______ language.

interpreted

The string function ____ returns a string that is thee concatenation of the strings in the sequence.

join

Python's _____ function returns a string's length when it is passed a string.

len

The _______ file system function returns a list of the names in the given directory.

listdir

The string function ____ returns a copy of the string converted to lowercase.

lower

The _______ file system function creates a new directory with the given name, and places it in the current working directory.

mkdir

Python's open function, which expects a file pathname and a _____ string as arguments, opens a connection to the file on disk and returns a file object.

mode

The function ________ returns a random number from the numbers between the two arguments and including those numbers.

randint

Python's ________ module supports several ways to generate random numbers.

random

The ______ function of a file object inputs the contents of a file and returns them as a single string.

read

The _________ function of a file object inputs a line of text and returns it as a string, including the newline.

readline

In Python, a string literal is a sequence of characters enclosed in _______.

single or double quotation marks

The string function _____ can be used to obtain a list of the words contained in an input string.

split

In Python, the values of most data types can be converted to strings by using the ____ function.

str

The string function ____ returns a copy of the string with leading and trailing whitespace characters (tabs, spaces, and newlines) removed.

strip

The ______ argument of Python's range function specifies a step value.

third

"%6s" % "four" right-justifies the string by padding it with _______________________.

two spaces to its left