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(a) ”Hello World”.upper().lower() (b) ”Hello World”.lower().upper()
(c) ”Hello World”.find(“Wor”,1,6) (d) ”Hello World”.find(“Wor”)
(e) ”Hello World”.find(“wor”) (f) ”Hello World”.isalpha()
(g) ”Hello World”.isalnum() (h) ”Hello World”.isdigit()
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(a) To check whether the string contains digits.
(b) To find the occurrence a string within another string.
(c) To convert the first letter of a string to upper case.
(d) To convert all the letters of a string to upper case.
(f) To check whether all the letters of the string are in capital letters.
(g) to remove all the white spaces from the beginning of a string.
Ans: (a) isalnum() (b) find() (c) capitalize()
(d) upper() (f) isupper() (g) lstrip()
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Chapter – 6: DEBUGGING PROGRAMS

Short answer Type Questions
Q.1 What do you understand by Syntax errors and Semantics errors?