Basics

Question 1

What does a variable do?

Answer 1

Stores a piece of data and gives it a name, to be recalled in a script.

Question 2

What is a boolean?

Answer 2

Data type that can only be True or False.

Question 3

#

Answer 3

One-lined comment

Question 4

”””

Answer 4

”"”Multi-line comment”””

Question 5

addition
subtraction
multiplication
division
exponent
modulo (remainder from division)

Answer 5

\+
-
*
/
**
%

Question 6

str()

Answer 6

Data type that can contain letters, numbers, and symbols. Strings are in “quotation marks”.

Question 7

Correct the string: ‘There’s a man in my pants!’

Answer 7

‘There's a man in my pants!’

Question 8

[index]

Answer 8

The assigned number for characters in a string. First number is 0.

Question 9

len()

Answer 9

Gets the length (number of characters) in a string.

Question 10

lower()

Answer 10

Makes entire string lowercase.

Question 11

upper()

Answer 11

Makes entire string uppercase.

Question 12

str()

Answer 12

Turns variable into a string.

Question 13

len(lion) and str(lion) but…

Answer 13

lion.upper() and lion.lower()

Question 14

Example of concatenation

Answer 14

print “Heaven” + “and” + “Hell”

Question 15

print “%s doesn’t know that %s is out to get %s!” % (“Bob”, “Evan”, “Chris”)

Answer 15

Bob doesn’t know that Evan is out to get Chris!

Question 16

Retrieve date and time

Answer 16

from datetime import datetime

print datetime.now()

Question 17

Print date and time in mm/dd/yyyy format

Answer 17

rom datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()
print ‘%s/%s/%s’ % (now.month, now.day, now.year)

Question 18

==
!=
<

> =

Answer 18

equal to
not equal to
less than
less than or equal to
greater than
greater than or equal to

Question 19

‘and’ boolean operator

Answer 19

True and True is True
True and False is False
False and True is False
False and False is False

Question 20

‘or’ boolean operator

Answer 20

True or True is True
True or False is True
False or True is True
False or False is False

Question 21

‘not’ boolean operator

Answer 21

Not True is False

Not False is True

Question 22

Order of boolean operators

Answer 22

1. not
2. and
3. or

Question 23

Correct this:
def greater_less_equal_5(answer)
    if (answer > 5)
        return 1
    elif (answer

Answer 23

def greater_less_equal_5(answer):
    if (answer > 5):
        return 1
    elif (answer

Question 24

slice into “and”:

s = “Sandra”

Answer 24

s = “Sandra”

print s[1:3]

Question 25

header

Answer 25

def function(parameter):

Question 26

functions can...

Answer 26

print text, do math, call another function

Question 27

function import

Answer 27

from math import sqrt

Question 28

universal import

Answer 28

from math import *

Question 29

print everything in a math module

Answer 29

from math import * everything = dir(math) print everything

Question 30

``` functions for: maximum minimum absolute value type ```

Answer 30

max() min() abs() type()

Question 31

What does the dictionary function do?

Answer 31

accesses values by looking up a key instead of an index