Assessment Questions: Python Slicing

Nov 7, 2013 • Kwasi Kwakwa

Novice question: If x = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] and y = x[1:-1], what values does y contain?

  1. y = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  2. y = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  3. y = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  4. y = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]

Expert question: if x = range(10) and y = x[::3], what values does y contain?

  1. y = [0, 1, 2]
  2. y = [3]
  3. y = [1, 4, 7, 10]
  4. y = [0, 3, 6, 9]