Check Point 3.2
1. What are literals? How many types of literals are available in Python?
Answer: Literals means constant, a data items which have a fixed value is called Literals.
There are five types of literals: –
(a) String Literals (b) Numeric Literals
(c) Boolean Literals (d) Special Literal None
(e) Literal Collections
2. How many types of integer literals are allowed in Python? How are they written?
Answer: Integer literals are whole numbers without any fractional part. It can be positive or negative number.
There are three types of integer literals in Python –
(a) Decimal Integer Literal: 125, 6985, 0 , -9839
(b) Octal Integer Literal: Octal integer literal is start with 0o . (Zero and English alphabet o). It can contain only 0 to 7 digit.
(c) Hexadecimal Integer Literal: Start with 0x . (Zero and English alphabet x). It can contain 0 to 9 and A to F.
3. Why are characters \, ’, ” and tab typed using escape sequences ?
Answer: When these characters \, ’, ” , \t (tap typed) are typed without escape sequence, then these behave differently, because these characters have some special meaning and special purpose.
4. Which escape sequences represent the newline character and backspace character? An escape sequence represents how many characters?
Answer: \n represent newline character. \b represents backspace character.
An escape sequence represents 1 character only and it consumes one byte in ASCII representation.
5. What are string-literals in Python How many ways, can you create String literals in Python? Are there any differences in them?
Answer: A string literal is a sequence of characters surrounded by single / double / triple quotes.
There are two types of String-literals in python –
(a) Single line Strings / Basic strings – String which enclosed in single ‘’ or double “” are called Single line / basic strings.
‘Anjeev Singh’, “My WhatsApp Number is 9541847706”
(b) Multiline Strings – In python, multiline string can be written in two ways – (i) by using backslash and (ii) by using triple quotes
By using backslash – A basic string (enclose in single or double quote) can be written in multiline, but it is considered as single line string. For example
>>> st = “Anjeev\
Singh”
>>> print(st)
AnjeevSingh
By using triple quote (single triple quote / double quote triple quote) – In python actual multiline string can be written with the help of triple single or double quote.
>>> st = ‘‘‘Anjeev
Singh’’’
>>> print(st)
Anjeev
Singh
Note : st = “Anjeev\nSingh”
6. What is meant by a floating-point literal in Python? How many ways can a floating literal be represented into?
Answer: Number having decimal point or fractional part called floating point literals. It is also known as real number literals.
Floating point literals can be represented in two ways:-
(a) Fractional Form and (b) Exponent Form
Fractional Form – A number with decimal point, either positive or negative called Fractional form. Example: – 5, 5.25, 0.525, 12.3698
Exponent Form – A real literal in having mantissa and exponent, called Exponent form. For example: – 0.58E01, 1.25E-8, 0.25E36
Note: In exponent form, (i) exponent can’t be fractional, 0.25E2.6 (ii) comma not allowed as separator, 25, 369.25E25, (iii) Exponent can be in small alphabet e or capital alphabet E.
7. Write the following real constants into exponent form:
23.197, 7.214, 0.00005, 0.319
Answer: 23.197 = 0.23197e2 or 2.3197e1
7.214 = 0.7214e1 or 7.214E0
0.00005 = 0.5E-4
0.319 = 0.319e0 or 3.19e-1
8. Write the following real constants into fractional form.
0.13E04, 0.417E-04, 0.4E-5, .12E02, 12.E02
Answer: 0.13E04 = 1300.0
0.417E-04 = 0.0000417
0.4E-5 = 0.000004
.12E02 = 12.0
12.e02 = 1200.0
9. What are the two Boolean literals in Python?
Answer: Two Boolean Literals in Python are: True and False.
10. Name some built-in literals of Python.
Answer: True, False and None are built-in literals of Python.
11. Out of the following literals, determine their type whether integer literal or a floating point literal in fractional or exponent form or string literal or other?
123, ‘abc’, “ABC”, 12.34, 0.3E-01, ‘‘‘ftghjkjl’’’, None, True, False
Answer: 123 = integer
‘abc’ = string
“ABC” = string
12.34 = floating literal in fractional form
0.3E-01 = floating literal in exponent form
None = Special literal None
True = Boolean Literal
False = Boolean Literal
12. What kind of program elements are the following?
‘a’ , 4.38925, “a”, “main” ?
Answer: ‘a’ , 4.38925, “a”, “main” all are literals.
‘a’, “a”, “main” are string literals
4.38925 is floating point literal.
13. What will varl and var2 store with statements ; var1 = 2,121E2 and var2 = 0.2, 121E2 ? What are the types of values stored in varl and var2?
Answer: var1 = 2,121E2
var1 = (2, 12100.0)
var2 = 0.2, 121E2
var2 = (0.2, 12100.0)
var1 and var2 both are tuple type. var1 tuple having integer and floating point values, while var2 tuple have both floating point values.
