lists and tuples

Question 1

this term refers to an individual item in a list

Answer 1

element

Question 2

this is a number that identifies an item in a list

Answer 2

index

Question 3

this is the first index in a list

Answer 3

0

Question 4

this will happen when you try to use and index that is out of range for a list

Answer 4

an IndexError exception will occur

Question 5

this function returns the length of a list

Answer 5

len

Question 6

when the * operator’s left operand is a list and its right operand is an integer, the operator becomes…

Answer 6

the repetition operator

Question 7

this list method adds an item to the end of an existing list

Answer 7

append

Question 8

if you call the index method to locate an item in a list and the item is not found, this happens…

Answer 8

a ValueError exception is raised

Question 9

this built in function returns the highest value in a list

Answer 9

max

Question 10

this file object method returns a list containing the file’s contents

Answer 10

readlines

Question 11

what is a list?

Answer 11

an object that contains multiple data items

Question 12

what are the items stored in the list called?

Answer 12

elements