Python Programming Language

Basic Math

100

This character denotes the division operator.

What is the forward slash (/) ?

200

These characters have the highest order of operation in Python.

What are parenthesis?

300

The result of 9 / 5

What is 1?

400

To raise the number 5 to the power of 8, you must use the power operator. This/These symbol(s) denote the power operator.

What are two asterisks (**) ?

500

Denoted as '%', this operator returns the remainder of a division operation.

What is the modulus?

Variables

100

This common variable type stores letters, numbers, and symbols.

What is a string?

200

This variable type stores decimal numbers.

What is a float?

300

This function allows user input text to be assigned to a variable.

What is input()?

400

Data stored as a string is surrounded by these.

What are quotes?

500

To determine the variable type of a variable, you would use this function.

What is type()?

Flow Control

100

This often-used statement checks the validity of a statement before creating a branch.

What is an 'if' statement?

200

This flow control statement loops through a set of statements.

What is a for loop?

300

What is the value of 'x' after the following Python code has completed executing?

x = 100

for n in range(1,5):

x = x*n print x

What is 2400?

400

What symbol comes after if-statement?

What is a :?

500

The following Python code loops forever. What is it missing?

n = 10

while n<100:

print n

What is an increment statement?

It's missing, the following inside the while-loop:

n+=10

General Python

100

To comment a line in Python, you use this/these character(s).

What is a pound sign (#) ?

200

This commonly used Python data structure contains a collection of items referenced by a numeric index.

What is a list?

300

How do you reverse a list in Python?

a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

# Reverse the list in-place

a.reverse()

or

a[::-1]

400

How do we convert another data type into a String?

What is a str()?

500

This built-in Python function returns the length of many objects, including Lists.

What is len()?

String Operations

100

This operator "glues" two strings together.

What is the concatenation (+) operator?

200

Identify the letter printed from these lines of code: words = "GIS Rules!" print words[4]

What is 'R'?

300

Identify the letters printed from these lines of code: words = "GIS Rules!" print words[:-1]

What is 'GIS Rules'?

400

if b = "Hello, World!" and I only want to print "Hello", how would I do it?

print(b[:5])

500

What is the difference between = and == mean?

= means an assignment

== means comparing two values