String Worksheet

Which of the following is not a Python legal string operation?

1. 'abc' + 'abc'

2. 'abc' *3

3. 'abc' + 3

4. 'abc'.lower()

Question 2

In Python string, + and * represent which of the following operations?

1. Concatenation, Replication

2. Addition, Multiplication

3. Neither (i) nor (ii)

4. Both (i) and (ii)

Question 3

Which of following is not a valid string operation?

1. Slicing

2. Concatenation

3. Repetition

4. Floor

Question 4

How many times is the word "Python" printed in the following statement?

s = 'I love Python'

for ch in s[3:8]:

print('Python')

1. 11 times

2. 8 times

3. 3 times
 4. 5 times

Question 5

Which of the following is the correct syntax of String Slicing?

1. String_name [start : end]

2. String_name [start : step]

3. String_name [step : end]

4. String_name [step : start]

Question 6

What is the correct Python code to display the last four characters of "Digital India"?

1. str [-4 :]

2. str [4 :]

3. str [*4 :]

4. str [/4 : ]

Question 7

What will be the output of the following code?

str1= "I love Python."

strlen = len(str1)

print(strlen)

1. 9

2. 29

3. 14

4. 3

Question 8

What will be the output of the following code?

Str1= 'My name is Nandini '

Str2 = Str1[3:7]
strlen = len(Str2)

print(strlen)

1. 4

2. 14

3. 24

4. 34

Question 9

Which method removes all the trailing whitespaces from the right of the string?

1. tolower()

2. upper()

3. Istrip()

4. rstrip()

Question 10

To concatenate means to ............... .

1. replicate

2. join

3. split

4. multiply

Question 11

............... function will always return tuple of 3 elements.

1. index()

2. split()

3. partition()

4. strip()
Question 12

What will be the output of the following code?

A = 'Virtual Reality'

[Link]('Virtual', 'Augmented')

1. Virtual Augmented

2. Reality Augmented

3. Augmented Virtual

4. Augmented Reality

Question 13

What will be the output of the following?

print("ComputerScience".split("er", 2))

1. ["Computer", "Science"]

2. ["Comput", "Science"]

3. ["Comput", "erScience"]

4. ["Comput", "er", "Science"]

Question 14

What is the ASCII equivalent decimal no. for 'Y'?

1. 87

2. 88

3. 89

4. 90

Question 15

STR = "RGBCOLOR"

colors = list(STR)

How do we delete 'B' in given List colors?

1. del colors[2]
 2. [Link]("B")

3. [Link](2)

4. All of these

Question 16

Which of the following will give "Simon" as output?

str1 = "Hari,Simon,Vinod"

1. print(str1[-7:-12])

2. print(str1[-11:-7])

3. print(str1[-11:-6])

4. print(str1[-7:-11])

Assertions and Reasons

Question 1

Assertion(A): S1 ='CoMPuter SciENce'

The above code will generate error.

Reasoning(R): String is immutable by default. The contents of the string cannot be

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 2

Assertion (A): print('INDIA'.capitalize())

Reasoning (R): The capitalize() method returns a string where the first character is
uppercase and the rest is lower case.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 3

Assertion (A): The process of repeating a set of elements in a string is termed as

Reasoning (R): Repetition allows us to repeat the given string using (*) operator along with
a number that specifies the number of replications.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 4

Assertion (A): In Python, the strings are mutable.

Reasoning (R): In strings, the values are enclosed inside double or single quotes.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 5

Assertion (A): Slicing a string involves extracting substring(s) from a given string.

Reasoning (R): Slicing does not require start and end index value of the string.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Assertion (A): The swapcase() function converts an input string into a toggle case.

Reasoning (R): The swapcase() function converts all uppercase characters to lowercase
and vice versa of the given string and returns it.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 7

Assertion (A): Indexing in a string is defined as positive and negative indexing.

Reasoning (R): In forward and backward indexing, the indices start with 1st index.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

Question 8

Assertion (A): The following code snippet on execution shall return the output as: False
True

str1 "Mission 999"

str2 = "999"

print([Link](), [Link]())

Reasoning (R): isdigit() function checks for the presence of all the digits in an inputted
string.

1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

2. Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A.

3. A is true but R is false.

4. A is false but R is true.

How does '*' operator behave on strings?

Question 2

Explain function split() with an example.

Question 3

How many times is the word 'HELLO' printed in the following statement?

s = "python rocks"

for ch in s:

print ("Hello")

Question 4

Write the output of the following:

>>> x = "hello"

>>> print(x[1:-2])

Question 5(a)

Write the output of the following:

string = "Hello Madam, I love Tutorials"

substring = "Madam"

if [Link](substring) != -1:

print("Python found the substring!")

else:

print("Python did NOT find the substring!")

Question 5(b)

Write the output of the following:

s = "Strings in Python"

print([Link]())

print([Link]())
s6 = [Link]("in", "data type")

print(s6)

Question 6

Find the output of the following:

word = 'work hard'

result = [Link]('work')

print("Substring, 'work', found at index:", result)

result = [Link]('har')

print("Substring, 'har ' ,found at index:", result)

if ([Link]('pawan') != -1):

print("Contains given substring ")

else:

print("Doesn't contain given substring")

Question 7

Consider the following string mySubject:

mySubject = "Computer Science"

What will be the output of the following string operations?

(i) print (mySubject [0:len(mySubject)])

(ii) print (mySubject[-7:-1])

(iii) print (mySubject[::2])

(iv) print (mySubject [len (mySubject) -1])

(v) print (2*mySubject)

(vi) print (mySubject[::-2])

(vii) print (mySubject[:3] + mySubject[3:])

(viii) print ([Link]() )

(ix) print ([Link]('Comp') )

Question 8

Write the Python statement and the output for the following:

(a) Find the third occurrence of 'e' in 'sequence'.

(b) Change the case of each letter in string 'FuNcTioN'.

(c) Whether 'Z' exists in string 'School' or not.

Question 9

Consider the string str1 = "Global Warming".

Write statements in Python to implement the following:

(a) To display the last four characters.

(b) To replace all the occurrences of letter 'a' in the string with "*".

Question 10

What will be the output of the following code?

Text = "Mind@Work!"

ln = len(Text)

nText = ""

for i in range(0, ln):

if Text[i].isupper():

nText = nText + Text[i].lower()

elif Text[i].isalpha():

nText = nText + Text[i].upper()

else:

nText = nText + 'A'

print(nText)
Question 11

Input the string 'My School'. Write a script to partition the string at the occurrence of letter
'h'.

Example :

('My Sc', 'h', 'ool')

Question 12

Write a program to convert a string with more than one word into titlecase string where
string is passed as parameter. (Titlecase means that the first letter of each word is
capitalized.)

Example

Enter a string: python programming is fun

Python Programming Is Fun

Question 13

Write a program that takes a sentence as an input parameter where each word in the
sentence is separated by a space. The function should replace each blank with a hyphen
and then return the modified sentence.

Example:

Enter a sentence: Innovation drives progress

Innovation-drives-progress

Question 14

Write a script to partition the string 'INSTITUTE' at the occurrence of letter 'T'.

Example:

('INS', 'T', 'ITUTE')

Question 15

What will be the output of the following programming code?

str = "My Python Programming"

print (str[-5:-1])
print (str[1:5])

print (str[:-4])

print (str[0:])

print (str[:13-4])

print (str[:3])

Question 16

Write a program to count the number of each vowel in a given string.

Example:

Enter a string: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Vowel counts: {'a': 1, 'e': 3, 'i': 1, 'o': 4, 'u': 2}

Question 17

Write a program that reads a line, then counts how many times the word 'is' appears in the
line and displays the count.

Example:

Enter a line: The project is ambitious, and its success is dependent on how well it is
managed and executed.

The word 'is' appears 3 times.

Question 18

Write a program to remove 'i' (if any) from a string.

Example:

Enter a string: institute

String after removing 'i': nsttute