Basic Math
Variables
Flow Control
General Python
String Operations
100
This character denotes the division operator.
What is the forward slash (/) ?
100
This common variable type stores letters, numbers, and symbols.
What is a string?
100
This often used statement checks the validity of a statement before creating a branch.
What is an 'if' statement?
100
To comment a line in Python, you use this/these character(s).
What is a pound sign (#) ?
100
This operator "glues" two strings together.
What is the concatenation (+) operator?
200
These characters have the highest order of operation in Python.
What are parenthesis?
200
This variable type stores decimal numbers.
What is a float?
200
This flow control statement loops through a set of statements if a test statement continues to evaluate to True.
What is a for or while loop?
200
This commonly used Python data structure contains a collection of items referenced by a numeric index.
What is a list?
200

This is how you convert a string into a list of characters.

What is list(string)?

300
The result of 9 / 5
What is 1?
300
This function allows user input text to be assigned to a variable.
What is raw_input()?
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?
300

When accessing the last element of a list or tuple, you can use this index value.

What is -1?

300
Identify the letters printed from these lines of code: words = "GIS Rules!" print words[:-1]
What is 'GIS Rules'?
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 (**) ?
400
Data stored as a string is surrounded by these.
What are quotes?
400
This type of operators allow you to string together tests in an 'if' statement.
What is a Boolean operator?
400
Python will warn on a logic error, but it will warn (and possibly error) on this type of error.
What is a syntax error?
400

This operation creates a slice of a list.

What is list slicing with [:]?

500
Denoted as '%', this operator returns the remainder of a division operation.
What is the modulus?
500
To determine the variable type of a variable, you would use this function.
What is type()?
500
The following Python code loops forever. What is it missing?
n = 10
while n<100:
print n
What is a increment statement?
500
This built-in Python function returns the length of many objects, including Lists.
What is len()?
500

This syntax returns elements from index 2 to 5 in a list.

What is list_name[2:6]?

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