Python

String Coding
Interview Questions
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Q1) Write a Program To REVERSE content of the given String by using
slice operator?
1) input: durga
2) output: agrud
3)
4) s = input('Enter Some String to Reverse:')
5) output = s[::-1]
6) print(output)

Q2) Write a Program To REVERSE content of the given String by using

reversed() function?
1) input: durga
2) output: agrud
3)
4) s=input('Enter Some String to Reverse:')
5) r=reversed(s)
6) output=''.join(r)
7) print(output)

Q3) Write a Program To REVERSE content of the given String by using

while loop?
1) input: durga
2) output: agrud
3)
4) s=input('Enter Some String to Reverse:')
5) output=''
6) i=len(s)-1
7) while i>=0:
8) output=output+s[i]
9) i=i-1
10) print(output)

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Q4) Write a Program To REVERSE order of words present in the given
string?
1) input: Learning Python Is Very Easy
2) output: Easy Very Is Python Learning
3)
4) s=input('Enter Some String:')
5) l=s.split()
6) l1=l[::-1]
7) output=' '.join(l1)
8) print(output)

Q5) Write a Program To REVERSE internal content of each word?

1) input: 'Durga Software Solutions'
2) output: 'agruD erawtfoS snoituloS'
3)
4) s=input('Enter Any String:')
5) l=s.split()
6) l1=[]
7) for word in l:
8) l1.append(word[::-1])
9) output=' '.join(l1)
10) print(output)

Q6) Write a Program To REVERSE internal content of every second

word present in the given string?
1) i/p: one two three four five six
2) o/p: one owt three ruof five xis
3)
4) s='one two three four five six'
5) l=s.split()
6) l1=[]
7) i=0
8) while i<len(l):
9) if i%2 == 0:
10) l1.append(l[i])
11) else:

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 12) l1.append(l[i][::-1])
13) i=i+1
14) output=' '.join(l1)
15) print(output)

Q7) Write a program to print the characters present at even index and
odd index seperately for the given string?
1st Way:

1) s=input('Enter Input String:')

2) print('Characters present at Even Index:')
3) i=0
4) while i<len(s):
5) print(s[i])
6) i=i+2
7) print('Characters present at Odd Index:')
8) i=1
9) while i<len(s):
10) print(s[i])
11) i=i+2

Output:
D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter Input String:durgasoftware
Characters present at Even Index:
d
r
a
o
t
a
e
Characters present at Odd Index:
u
g
s
f
w
r

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2nd Way:

1) s=input('Enter Input String:')

2) print('Characters present at Even Index:',s[0::2])
3) print('Characters present at Even Index:',s[::2])
4) print('Characters present at Odd Index:',s[1::2])

Q8) Write a program to merge characters of 2 strings into a single

string by taking characters alternatively?
Input:
s1='RAVI'
s2='TEJA'

Output: RTAEVJIA

If strings are having same length:

1) s1='RAVI'
2) s2='TEJA'
3) output=''
4) i,j=0,0
5) while i<len(s1) or j<len(s2):
6) output=output+s1[i]+s2[j]
7) i=i+1
8) j=j+1
9) print(output)

Output: RTAEVJIA

2nd way by using map():

1) s1='RAVI'
2) s2='TEJA'
3) l=list(map(lambda x,y:x+y,s1,s2))
4) print(''.join(l))

Note: The above program can work if the lengths of 2 strings are same.

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If strings having different lengths:

1) s1=input('Enter First String:')

2) s2=input('Enter Second String:')
3) output=''
4) i,j=0,0
5) while i<len(s1) or j<len(s2):
6) if i<len(s1):
7) output=output+s1[i]
8) i=i+1
9) if j<len(s2):
10) output=output+s2[j]
11) j=j+1
12) print(output)

Output:
D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter First String:RAVIKIRAN
Enter Second String:TEJA
RTAEVJIAKIRAN

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter First String:RAVI
Enter Second String:TEJAKIRAN
RTAEVJIAKIRAN

Q9) Assume input string contains only alphabet symbols and digits.
Write a program to sort characters of the string, first alphabet
symbols followed by digits?
1) input: B4A1D3
2) output: ABD134
3)
4) s='B4A1D3'
5) alphabets=[]
6) digits=[]
7) for ch in s:
8) if ch.isalpha():
9) alphabets.append(ch)
10) else:

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 11) digits.append(ch)
12) output=''.join(sorted(alphabets)+sorted(digits))
13) print(output)

Alternative way:

1) s='B4A1D3'
2) alphabets=''
3) digits=''
4) for ch in s:
5) if ch.isalpha():
6) alphabets+=ch
7) else:
8) digits+=ch
9) output=''
10) for ch in sorted(alphabets):
11) output=output+ch
12) for ch in sorted(digits):
13) output=output+ch
14) print(output)

Q10) Write a program for the following requirement?

1) input: a4b3c2
2) output: aaaabbbcc
3)
4) s=input('Enter Some String where alphabet symbol should be followed by digit:')
5) output=''
6) for ch in s:
7) if ch.isalpha():
8) x=ch
9) else:
10) d=int(ch)
11) output=output+x*d
12) print(output)

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Q11) Write a program for the following requirement?
1) input: a3z2b4
2) output: aaabbbbzz (sorted String)
3)
4) s=input('Enter Some String where alphabet symbol should be followed by digit:')
5) target=''
6) for ch in s:
7) if ch.isalpha():
8) x=ch
9) else:
10) d=int(ch)
11) target=target+x*d
12) output = ''.join(sorted(target))
13) print(output)

Q12) Write a program for the following requirement?

1) input: aaaabbbccz
2) output: 4a3b2c1z
3)
4) s='aaaabbbccz'
5) output=''
6) previous=s[0]
7) c=1
8) i=1
9) while i<len(s):
10) if s[i]==previous:
11) c=c+1
12) else:
13) output=output+str(c)+previous
14) previous=s[i]
15) c=1
16) if i ==len(s)-1:
17) output=output+str(c)+previous
18) i=i+1
19) print(output)

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Q13) Write a program for the following requirement?
Input: a4k3b2
Output: aeknbd

In this example the following two functions are required to use

1) ord(): To find unicode value for the given character
Eg: print(ord('a')) #97
2) chr(): To find corresponding character for the given unicode value
Eg: print(chr(97)) # a

1) s='a4k3b2'
2) output=''
3) for ch in s:
4) if ch.isalpha():
5) x=ch
6) output=output+ch
7) else:
8) d=int(ch)
9) newc= chr(ord(x)+d)
10) output=output+newc
11) print(output)

Q14) Write a program to remove duplicate characters from the given

input String?
Input: AZZZBCDABBCDABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEEF
Output: AZBCDEF

1st way:

1) s='AZZZBCDABBCDABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEEF'
2) output=''
3) for ch in s:
4) if ch not in output:
5) output=output+ch
6) print(output) # AZBCDEF

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2nd way:

1) s='AZZZBCDABBCDABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEEEF'
2) l=[]
3) for ch in s:
4) if ch not in l:
5) l.append(ch)
6) output=''.join(l)
7) print(output) # AZBCDEF

3rd way by using set (but no guarantee for the order)

1) s='ABCDABXXXBCDABBBBCCCZZZZCDDDDEEEEEF'
2) s1=set(s)
3) output=''.join(s1)
4) print(output) #CAEZBFD

Q15) Write a program to find the number of occurrences of each

character present in the given string?
By using count() method and List:

1) s='ABCDABXXXBCDABBBBCCCZZZZCDDDDEEEEEF'
2) l=[]
3) for ch in s:
4) if ch not in l:
5) l.append(ch)
6)
7) for ch in sorted(l):
8) print('{} occurrs {} times'.format(ch,s.count(ch)))

Without using count() method:

1) s='ABCDABXXXBCDABBBBCCCZZZZCDDDDEEEEEF'
2) d={}
3) for ch in s:
4) d[ch]=d.get(ch,0)+1
5) for k,v in d.items():
6) print('{} occurrs {} times'.format(k,v))

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For sorting purpose:

1) for k,v in sorted(d.items()):

2) print('{} occurrs {} times'.format(k,v))

Q16) Write the program for the following requirement:

Input: ABAABBCA
Output: 4A3B1C

1) s='ABAABBCA'
2) output=''
3) d={}
4) for ch in s:
5) d[ch]=d.get(ch,0)+1
6) for k,v in sorted(d.items()):
7) output=output+str(v)+k
8) print(output)

Q17) Write the program for the following requirement:

Input: ABAABBCA
Output: A4B3C1

1) s='ABAABBCA'
2) output=''
3) d={}
4) for ch in s:
5) d[ch]=d.get(ch,0)+1
6) for k,v in sorted(d.items()):
7) output=output+k+str(v)
8) print(output)

Q18) Write a program to find the number of occurrences of each

vowel present in the given string?
1) s=input('Enter some string to search for vowels:')
2) v=['a','e','i','o','u','A','E','I','O','U']
3) d={}
4) for ch in s:
5) if ch in v:

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 6) d[ch]=d.get(ch,0)+1
7) for k,v in sorted(d.items()):
8) print('{} occurrs {} times'.format(k,v))

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter some string to search for vowels:DURGASOFTWARESOLUTIONS
A occurrs 2 times
E occurrs 1 times
I occurrs 1 times
O occurrs 3 times
U occurrs 2 times

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter some string to search for vowels:mississippi
i occurrs 4 times

Q19) Write a program to check whether the given two strings are
anagrams or not?
Two strings are said to be anagrams iff both are having same content irrespective of
characters position.

Eg: lazy and zaly

1) s1=input("Enter first string:")

2) s2=input("Enter second string:")
3) if(sorted(s1)==sorted(s2)):
4) print("The strings are anagrams.")
5) else:
6) print("The strings aren't anagrams.")

Output:
D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter first string:lazy
Enter second string:zaly
The strings are anagrams.

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter first string:durga
Enter second string:urgadd
The strings aren't anagrams.

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Q20) Write a program to check whether the given string is palindrome
or not ?
A string is said to be palindrome iff original string and its reversed strings are equal.

1) s=input("Enter Some string:")

2) if s==s[::-1]:
3) print('The given string is palindrome')
4) else:
5) print('The given string is not palindrome')

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter Some string:level
The given string is palindrome

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter Some string:madam
The given string is palindrome

D:\durgaclasses>py test.py
Enter Some string:apple
The given string is not palindrome

Q21) Write the program for the following requirement:

1) inputs:
2) s1='abcdefg'
3) s2='xyz'
4) s3='12345'
5) output: ax1, by2,cz3,d4,e5,f,g
6)
7) s1='abcdefg'
8) s2='xyz'
9) s3='12345'
10) i=j=k=0
11) while i<len(s1) or j<len(s2) or k<len(s3):
12) output=''
13) if i<len(s1):
14) output=output+s1[i]
15) i=i+1

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 16) if j<len(s2):
17) output=output+s2[j]
18) j=j+1
19) if k<len(s3):
20) output=output+s3[k]
21) k=k+1
22) print(output)

Output:
ax1
by2
cz3
d4
e5
f
g

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