PCEP Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. What is the result of str(100) in Python? → "100" (a string)
2. What is the scope of a variable defined inside an if block at module level? → Module (global) scope — if blocks don't create a new scope
3. What does the finally clause do in Python exception handling? → Executes code regardless of whether an exception occurred
4. What is the output of this code snippet? ```python var = 100 def my_func(): global var var = 50 my_func() print(var) ``` → 50
5. What type of error occurs if you try to access an undefined variable? → NameError
6. Which escape sequence represents a newline character in a Python string? → \n
7. How do you define a function in Python? → def myFunction():
8. Which of the following Python expressions correctly calculates the length of a string? → len(string)
9. What is the result of the bitwise XOR operation `13 ^ 7`? → 10
10. What is the result of int(3.9) in Python? → 3 (truncates toward zero)
11. What does `'Hello World'.lower()` return? → hello world
12. What does `'hello'.upper()` return? → HELLO
13. What value is assigned to `result`? `result = (2 + 3) * 5 - 1` → 24
14. What is the output of `'abc' * 0`? → ''
15. What is the output of this `while` loop? ```python i = 0 while i < 5: i += 1 if i == 3: continue print(i, end=' ') ``` → 1 2 4 5
16. What is the return value of len("Python")? → 6
17. What does min([10, 3, 7, 1, 5]) return? → 1
18. What exception is raised when dividing by zero in Python? → ZeroDivisionError
19. What is the result of the bitwise left shift operation `6 << 2`? → 24
20. What is the output of the following expression? `print(10 // 3 % 2)` → 1
21. What happens when you execute int("hello") in Python? → Raises a ValueError
22. What is the output of `float('3.14')`? → 3.14
23. What is the output of the following code? ```python print('apple', 'banana', 'cherry', sep=',') ``` → apple,banana,cherry
24. What does `'Python'.find('th')` return? → 2
25. What is the result of `-7 % 3` in Python? → 2
26. Which of the following data structures is used to store unique elements in Python? → set
27. Which data type is used to store textual data in Python? → str
28. What does `int(3.9)` return? → 3
29. Which of the following is the correct syntax to output "Hello, World!" in Python? → print("Hello, World!")
30. Which method replaces all occurrences of a substring in a string? → replace()