Python– Built-in Functions – 3
1. Which of the following functions accepts only integers as arguments?
a) ord()
b) min()
c) chr()
d) any()
Answer: c
Explanation: The function chr() accepts only integers as arguments. The function ord()
accepts only strings. The functions min() and max() can accept floating point as well as
integer arguments.
2. Suppose there is a list such that: l=[2,3,4]. If we want to print this list in reverse order,
which of the following methods should be used?
a) reverse(l)
b) list(reverse[(l)])
c) reversed(l)
d) list(reversed(l))
Answer: d
Explanation: The built-in function reversed() can be used to reverse the elements of a list.
This function accepts only an iterable as an argument. To print the output in the form of a list,
we use: list(reversed(l)). The output will be: [4,3,2].
3. What will be the output of the following Python function?
float(' -12345\n')
(Note that the number of blank spaces before the number is 5)
a) -12345.0 (5 blank spaces before the number)
b) -12345.0
c) Error
d) -12345.000000000…. (infinite decimal places)
Answer: b
Explanation: The function float() will remove all the blank spaces and convert the integer to a
floating point number. Hence the output will be: -12345.0.
4. What will be the output of the following Python function?
ord(65)
ord(‘A’)
a)
A
65
b)
Error
65
c)
A
Error
d)
Error
Error
5. What will be the output of the following Python function?
float(‘-infinity’)
float(‘inf’)
a)
–inf
inf
b)
–infinity
inf
c)
Error
Error
d)
Error
Junk value
Answer: a
Explanation: The output of the first function will be –inf and that of the second function will
be inf.
6. Which of the following functions will not result in an error when no arguments are passed
to it?
a) min()
b) divmod()
c) all()
d) float()
Answer: d
Explanation: The built-in functions min(), max(), divmod(), ord(), any(), all() etc throw an
error when no arguments are passed to them. However there are some built-in functions like
float(), complex() etc which do not throw an error when no arguments are passed to them.
The output of float() is 0.0.
7. What will be the output of the following Python function?
hex(15)
a) f
b) 0xF
c) 0Xf
d) 0xf
Answer: d
Explanation: The function hex() is used to convert the given argument into its hexadecimal
representation, in lower case. Hence the output of the function hex(15) is 0xf.
8. Which of the following functions does not throw an error?
a) ord()
b) ord(‘ ‘)
c) ord(”)
d) ord(“”)
Answer: b
Explanation: The function ord() accepts a character. Hence ord(), ord(”) and ord(“”) throw
errors. However the function ord(‘ ‘) does not throw an error because in this case, we are
actually passing a blank space as an argument. The output of ord(‘ ‘) is 32 (ASCII value
corresponding to blank space).
9. What will be the output of the following Python function?
len(["hello",2, 4, 6])
a) 4
b) 3
c) Error
d) 6
Answer: a
Explanation: The function len() returns the length of the number of elements in the iterable.
Therefore the output of the function shown above is 4.
10. What will be the output of the following Python function?
oct(7)
oct(‘7’)
a)
Error
07
b)
0o7
Error
c)
0o7
Error
d)
07
0o7
Answer: c
Explanation: The function oct() is used to convert its argument into octal form. This function
does not accept strings. Hence the second function results in an error while the output of the
first function is 0o7.
