Coding Interview Questions in Python

March 15, 2021

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Commonly Asked Coding Interview Questions and Answers in Python

1. Python Program for Program to find the area of a circle using radius.

Solution:-
Area = pi * r2
where r is radius of circle

# Python program to find Area of a circle

def findArea(r):
PI = 3.142
return PI * (r*r);

# Driver method
print(“Area is %.6f” % findArea(5));

2. Write a Python Program for Sum of squares of first n natural numbers

Solution:-

Given a positive integer N. The task is to find 12 + 22 + 32 + ….. + N2.

Examples:

Input : N = 4

Output : 30 12 + 22 + 32 + 42 = 1 + 4 + 9 + 16 = 30

Input : N = 5 Output : 55

sm = 0
for i in range(1, n+1) : 
sm = sm + (i * i)

return sm

# Driven Program 
n = 4
print(squaresum(n))

3.Write a Python program to interchange first and last elements in a list.

Solution:-

Input : [12, 35, 9, 56, 24]

Output : [24, 35, 9, 56, 12]

Input : [1, 2, 3]

Output : [3, 2, 1]

def swapList(newList): 
size = len(newList) 

# Swapping 
temp = newList[0] 
newList[0] = newList[size - 1] 
newList[size - 1] = temp 

return newList newList = [12, 35, 9, 56, 24] 

print(swapList(newList)) 

OUTPUT:-
[24, 35, 9, 56, 12]

4. Write a Python program to find smallest number in a list.

Input : list1 = [10, 20, 4]

Output : 4

Input : list2 = [20, 10, 20, 1, 100] Output : 1

# list of numbers 
list1 = [10, 20, 4, 45, 99]

# sorting the list
list1.sort()

# printing the first element
print("Smallest element is:", *list1[:1])

Output:-

smallest element is: 4

5. Write a Python program to print even numbers in a list.

Input: list1 = [2, 7, 5, 64, 14] Output: [2, 64, 14]

Input: list2 = [12, 14, 95, 3]

Output: [12, 14]

# list of numbers 
list1 = [10, 21, 4, 45, 66, 93]

# iterating each number in list 
for num in list1: 

# checking condition 
if num % 2 == 0: 
print(num, end = " ")

OUTPUT:-

10,4,66

6.Write a Python program to print all negative numbers in a range.

Solution:-

Input: start = -4, end = 5

Output: -4, -3, -2, -1

Input: start = -3, end = 4 Output: -3, -2, -1

# Python program to print negative Numbers in given range 

start, end = -4, 19

# iterating each number in list 
for num in range(start, end + 1): 

# checking condition 
if num < 0: 
print(num, end = " ")

OUTPUT

-4, -3, -2, -1

7. Python program to check if a string is palindrome or not.

Solution:-

Input : malayalam Output : Yes

Input : geeks Output : No

# function which return reverse of a string 

def isPalindrome(s): 
return s == s[::-1] 

# Driver code 
s = "malayalam"
ans = isPalindrome(s) 

if ans: 
print("Yes") 
else: 
print("No")

OUTPUT:-

Yes

8.Python program to print even length words in a string.

Solution:-

Input: s = "This is a python language"
Output: This
        is
        python
        language 

Input: s = "i am muskan"
Output: am
        muskan



# even length words in a string

def printWords(s):

# split the string
s = s.split(' ')

# iterate in words of string
for word in s:

# if length is even
if len(word)%2==0:
print(word)

# Driver Code
s = "i am muskan"
printWords(s)

OUTPUT:
am
muskan

9.Write a Python Program for QuickSort.

Solution:-

def partition(arr,low,high): 
i = ( low-1 ) # index of smaller element 
pivot = arr[high] # pivot

for j in range(low , high): 

# If current element is smaller than or 
# equal to pivot 
if arr[j] <= pivot: 

# increment index of smaller element 
i = i+1 
arr[i],arr[j] = arr[j],arr[i] 

arr[i+1],arr[high] = arr[high],arr[i+1] 
return ( i+1 ) 

# The main function that implements QuickSort 
# arr[] --> Array to be sorted, 
# low --> Starting index, 
# high --> Ending index 

# Function to do Quick sort 
def quickSort(arr,low,high): 
if low < high: 

# pi is partitioning index, arr[p] is now 
# at right place 
pi = partition(arr,low,high) 

# Separately sort elements before 
# partition and after partition 
quickSort(arr, low, pi-1) 
quickSort(arr, pi+1, high) 

# Driver code to test above 
arr = [10, 7, 8, 9, 1, 5] 
n = len(arr) 
quickSort(arr,0,n-1) 
print ("Sorted array is:") 
for i in range(n): 
print ("%d" %arr[i]),

10. Python Program for Find sum of odd factors of a number.

Solution:- Input : n = 30 Output : 24 Odd dividers sum 1 + 3 + 5 + 15 = 24 Input : 18 Output : 13 Odd dividers sum 1 + 3 + 9 = 13 
# Returns sum of all factors 
# of n. 
def sumofoddFactors( n ):
# Traversing through all 
# prime factors.
res = 1

# ignore even factors by 
# of 2
while n % 2 == 0:
n = n // 2

for i in range(3, int(math.sqrt(n) + 1)):

# While i divides n, print 
# i and divide n
count = 0
curr_sum = 1
curr_term = 1
while n % i == 0:
count+=1

n = n // i
curr_term *= i
curr_sum += curr_term

res *= curr_sum

# This condition is to 
# handle the case when 
# n is a prime number.
if n >= 2:
res *= (1 + n)

return res

# Driver code
n = 30
print(sumofoddFactors(n))
11. Write a Python program to convert time from 12 hour to 24 hour format. Solution:-  Given a time in 12-hour AM/PM format, convert it to military (24-hour) time. Note : Midnight is 12:00:00 AM on a 12-hour clock and 00:00:00 on a 24-hour clock. Noon is 12:00:00 PM on 12-hour clock and 12:00:00 on 24-hour clock. Examples : Input : 11:21:30 PM Output : 23:21:30 Input : 12:12:20 AM Output : 00:12:20 
# Function to convert the date format 
def convert24(str1):
# Checking if last two elements of time 
# is AM and first two elements are 12
if str1[-2:] == "AM" and str1[:2] == "12":
return "00" + str1[2:-2]

# remove the AM
elif str1[-2:] == "AM":
return str1[:-2]

# Checking if last two elements of time 
# is PM and first two elements are 12
elif str1[-2:] == "PM" and str1[:2] == "12":
return str1[:-2]

else:

# add 12 to hours and remove PM
return str(int(str1[:2]) + 12) + str1[2:8]

# Driver Code
print(convert24("08:05:45 PM"))

OUTPUT

20:05:45

12. Write a Python Program for Find largest prime factor of a number.

Solution:- Given a positive integer \’n\'( 1 <= n <= 1015). Find the largest prime factor of a number. Input: 6 Output: 3 Explanation Prime factor of 6 are- 2, 3 Largest of them is \’3\’ Input: 15 Output: 5 
# Initialize the maximum prime factor 
# variable with the lowest one 
maxPrime = -1
# Print the number of 2s that divide n
while n % 2 == 0:
maxPrime = 2
n >>= 1 # equivalent to n /= 2

# n must be odd at this point, 
# thus skip the even numbers and 
# iterate only for odd integers
for i in range(3, int(math.sqrt(n)) + 1, 2):
while n % i == 0:
maxPrime = i
n = n / i

# This condition is to handle the 
# case when n is a prime number 
# greater than 2
if n > 2:
maxPrime = n

return int(maxPrime)

# Driver code to test above function
n = 15
print(maxPrimeFactors(n))

n = 25698751364526
print(maxPrimeFactors(n))

13. Write a Python Program for n-th Fibonacci number.

Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2

with seed values

F0 = 0 and F1 = 1.

def Fibonacci(n): 
if n<0: 
print("Incorrect input") 
# First Fibonacci number is 0 
elif n==1: 
return 0
# Second Fibonacci number is 1 
elif n==2: 
return 1
else: 
return Fibonacci(n-1)+Fibonacci(n-2)

# Driver Program

print(Fibonacci(9))

14. Write a Python Program for Bubble Sort.

Solution:- 
def bubbleSort(arr): 
n = len(arr)
# Traverse through all array elements 
for i in range(n-1):
# range(n) also work but outer loop will repeat one time more than needed.

# Last i elements are already in place 
for j in range(0, n-i-1):

# traverse the array from 0 to n-i-1 
# Swap if the element found is greater 
# than the next element
if arr[j] > arr[j+1] :
arr[j], arr[j+1] = arr[j+1], arr[j]

# Driver code to test above
arr = [64, 34, 25, 12, 22, 11, 90]

bubbleSort(arr)

print ("Sorted array is:")
for i in range(len(arr)):
print ("%d" %arr[i]),

15. How can you create Empty NumPy Array In Python?

Solution:- We can create Empty NumPy Array in two ways in Python:

import numpy
numpy.array([])
numpy.empty(shape=(0,0))

16. How to convert a list into a set?

Solution:- 
weekdays = ['sun','mon','tue','wed','thu','fri','sat','sun','tue']
listAsSet = set(weekdays)
print(listAsSet)

17. How to convert a list into a string?

Solution:- 
weekdays = ['sun','mon','tue','wed','thu','fri','sat']
listAsString = ' '.join(weekdays)
print(listAsString)

18. How to convert a list into a set?

Solution:-

weekdays = ['sun','mon','tue','wed','thu','fri','sat','sun','tue']
listAsSet = set(weekdays)
print(listAsSet)

19. How to count the occurrences of a particular element in the list?

Solution:- We can count the occurrences of an individual element by using a <count()> function. 
weekdays = ['sun','mon','tue','wed','thu','fri','sun','mon','mon']
print(weekdays.count('mon'))

20. How to generate random numbers in Python?

Solution:- We can generate random numbers using different functions in Python. They are:

  1.  random() – This command returns a floating point number, between 0 and 1.
  2.  uniform(X, Y) – It returns a floating point number between the values given as X and Y.
  3.  randint(X, Y) – This command returns a random integer between the values given as X and Y.