Python Practice Test

Question 1

What is Python?

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General-purpose interpreted, interactive language, object-oriented and high-level programming language

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General-purpose interpreted language

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General-purpose interpreted and interactive language

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General-purpose interpreted, interactive language and object-oriented language

Question 2

Which license does the Python source code fall under?

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GPL

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MIT

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EPL

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Apache

Question 3

Who created Phyton?

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Guido van Rossum

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Brendan Eich

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Rasmus Lerdorf

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Larry Wall

Question 4

Which of the following is a Python environment variable that isn't valid?

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PYTHONLIBRARY

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PYTHONSTARTUP

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PYTHONPATH

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PYTHONCASEOK

Question 5

What specifically is PYTHONPATH?

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It tells the Python interpreter where to locate the module files imported into a program

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It tells the Python compiler where to locate the module files imported into a program

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It is used for installation of Python

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None of these

Question 6

What is the meaning of PYTHONHOME?

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It is an alternative module search path

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It is used in Windows to instruct Python to find the first case-insensitive match in an import statement

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It contains the path of an initialization file containing Python source code

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None of these

Question 7

What is the purpose of PYTHONSTARTUP?

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It is executed every time you start the interpreter

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It is needed while booting of a particular process

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It is executed every time you start the compiler

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None of these

Question 8

What does the -d command line option do?

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It provides debug output

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It generates optimized bytecode

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It provides debug input

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None of the above

Question 9

What is PYTHONCASEOK, and how does it work?

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It is used to find the first case-insensitive match in an import statement

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It is used to find the first case-insensitive match in a package statement

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It is used to find the first case-sensitive match in an import statement

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None of these

Question 10

Which of these naming conventions for Python identifiers is incorrect?

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An identifier can start with a number

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An identifier can start with lowercase letter

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An identifier can start with underscore(_)

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An identifier can start with uppercase letter