Complete Python Interview Guide
This guide covers essential Python interview topics including basics, control flow, functions, data
structures, object-oriented programming, exception handling, file handling, advanced Python
concepts, coding questions, and database connectivity. Each section includes clear definitions and
examples to help you prepare effectively.
1. Basic Python Interview Questions
• What is Python? Key features, advantages, disadvantages. • Interpreted nature of Python. •
Variables, data types, keywords. • Mutable vs immutable, lists, tuples, sets. • Difference between
== and is. • Print, input, indentation, modules, packages.
2. Control Flow & Loops
• Conditional statements. • Loops: for, while. • break, continue, pass. • Nested loops. • Else in loops.
3. Functions
• Defining and calling functions. • Arguments vs parameters. • Default arguments, *args, **kwargs. •
Recursion, lambda. • Scope: local and global. • Docstrings.
4. Data Structures
• Lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries. • Add/remove elements. • Sorting, merging, comprehensions. •
Shallow vs deep copy.
5. Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes and objects. • __init__, inheritance, polymorphism. • Encapsulation, method overriding. •
@staticmethod, @classmethod.
6. Exception Handling
• Exception types. • try, except, else, finally. • Raising custom exceptions.
7. File Handling
• open() modes. • Reading and writing files. • with statement. • File exceptions.
8. Advanced Python Topics
• Iterators, generators. • Decorators. • Modules vs packages. • Pickling/unpickling. • Garbage
collection. • Multithreading vs multiprocessing.
9. Coding Questions
• Reverse string. • Palindrome check. • Factorial (recursion). • Fibonacci series. • Prime number
check. • Remove duplicates. • Count vowels, words.
10. Database & Python
• Connecting to MySQL. • cursor() usage. • Fetching results. • Parameterized queries.