***PYTHON INTERVIEW CODING QUESTIONS***

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1.Write a Python function to reverse a string?

A .Python function to reverse a String :

def reverse_string(s):

return s[::-1]

print(reverse_string("hello")) # Output: "olleh"

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2. Write a Python function to check if a number is prime?

A. Python function to check if a number is prime or not :

Solution -1:

def is_prime(n):

if n <= 1:

return False

for i in range(2, int(n ** 0.5) + 1):

if n % i == 0:

return False

return True

print(is_prime(7)) # Output: True

Solution-2:

num = int(input(“Enter a number:”))

# To take input from the user

#num = int(input("Enter a number: "))

if num == 0 or num == 1:

print(num, "is not a prime number")

elif num > 1:

# check for factors

for i in range(2,num):

if (num % i) == 0:

print(num,"is not a prime number")

print(i,"times",num//i,"is",num)

break

else:

print(num,"is a prime number")

# if input number is less than

# or equal to 1, it is not prime

else:

print(num,"is not a prime number")

Solution-3 :

# Input number from the user

num = int(input("Enter a number: "))

# A prime number is greater than 1 and divisible only by 1 and itself

if num > 1:

# Check divisibility from 2 to num-1

for i in range(2, num):

if num % i == 0:

print(num, "is not a prime number")

break
 else:

print(num, "is a prime number")

else:

print(num, "is not a prime number")

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3. Write a Python function to find the factorial of a number.

A. Python function to find the factorial of a number :

def fact(n):

If n==1 or n==0:

return 1

return n*fact(n-1)

n=int(input(“Enter a number:”))

print(fact(n))

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4. Write a Python program to check if a number is even or odd.

A. Python program to check the given number is even or odd :

num=int(input(“enter a number :”))

if num%2==0:
print(“Given number”,num,”is even”)
else:
print(“Given number”,num,”is odd”)
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5. Write a program to count the number of vowels in a given string .

A.

# Input string from the user

string = input("Enter a string: ")

# Define the vowels

vowels = "aeiouAEIOU"

# Initialize the count to 0

count = 0

# Loop through each character in the string

for char in string:

if char in vowels:

count += 1

# Print the result

print("Number of vowels in the string:", count)

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6. How do you remove duplicates from a list?
A.

my_list = [1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5]

unique_list = list(set(my_list))

print(unique_list) # Output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] (Order may vary)

(OR)

my_list = [1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5]

unique_list = []

[unique_list.append(x) for x in my_list if x not in unique_list]

print(unique_list) # Output: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

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7. Write a program to find the common elements in two lists.
A.

def common_elements(list1, list2):

return list(set(list1) & set(list2))

# Example usage

list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

list2 = [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

print(common_elements(list1, list2)) # Output: [4, 5]

(OR)

def common_elements(list1, list2):

return [x for x in list1 if x in list2]

# Example usage

list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

list2 = [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

print(common_elements(list1, list2)) # Output: [4, 5]

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8. How do you merge two dictionaries in Python?

A.

dict1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

dict2 = {'b': 3, 'c': 4}

merged_dict = dict1 | dict2

print(merged_dict) # Output: {'a': 1, 'b': 3, 'c': 4}

(OR)

dict1 = {'a': 1, 'b': 2}

dict2 = {'b': 3, 'c': 4}

dict1.update(dict2)

print(dict1) # Output: {'a': 1, 'b': 3, 'c': 4}

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9. Write a program to sort a list of numbers.
A.

def sort_numbers(numbers):

return sorted(numbers)

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10. How can you count the occurrences of each character in a string?
A.

Using collections.Counter (Best for Simplicity & Performance)

from collections import Counter

text = "hello world"

char_count = Counter(text)

print(char_count) # Output: Counter({'l': 3, 'o': 2, 'h': 1, 'e': 1, ' ': 1, 'w': 1, 'r': 1, 'd': 1})

Using a Dictionary (Manual Counting)

text = "hello world"
char_count = {}

for char in text:

char_count[char] = char_count.get(char, 0) + 1

print(char_count) # Output: {'h': 1, 'e': 1, 'l': 3, 'o': 2, ' ': 1, 'w': 1, 'r': 1, 'd': 1}
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