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Must Prepare Python File Handling MCQ Class 12 for Term 1

 November 28, 2021  Jitendra Singh  Class 12, Python for CBSE

Must Prepare Python File Handling MCQ Class 12 for Term 1

MCQ on Writing/appending data to a text file using write() and writelines(),

Reading from a text file using read(), readline( ) and readlines()

1. The ____________ method returns a list containing each line of the le as a list item.

a) read()

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 b) readline()

c) readlines() 

d) readone()

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2. If we want to write a sequence of strings,list, tuple into the le then we use _________ function.

a) write()

b) writelines()

c) writerow()

d) append()

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3. read() and readline() functions can be used for reading no of characters from le if size is mentioned.

a) read() and readline() 

b) readlines() and readline()

c) read() and readlines()

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 d) None of the above

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4. We can use readline( ) function which can read one line at a time from the le.

a) read()

b) readline() 

c) readlines()

d) readone()

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5. To read twelve characters from a le object n we use ________

a) n.read(12) 

b) n.read()

c) n.readline()

d) read(12)

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6. Python automatically ushes the le buffers before closing a le with close() function.

a) True 

b) False

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7. The ________ method in Python le handling clears the internal buffer of the le..

a) close()

b) ush() 

c) clear()

d) open()

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8. Suppose content of ‘My le.txt’ is

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall

All the king’s horses and all the king’s men

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 Couldn’t put Humpty together again

What will be the output of the following code?

my le = open(“My le.txt”)

record = my le.read().split()

print(len(record))

my le.close()

a) 24

b) 25

c) 26 

d) 27

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9. To create a new le or to write on an existing le after truncating / overwriting its old content , le has to be opened in _______
access mode

a) “w+” 

b) “a+”

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 c) “r+”

d) “wb”

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10. Which of the following options can be used to read the rst line of a text le My le.txt?

a) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.read()

b) my le = open(‘My le.txt’,’r’); my le.read(n)

c) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.readline() 

d) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.readlines()

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11. Which of the following options can be used to read the whole content of a text le My le.txt?

a) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.read() 

b) my le = open(‘My le.txt’,’r’); my le.read(n)

c) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.readline()

d) my le = open(‘My le.txt’); my le.readlines()

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12. To open a le for reading any of the following statement can be used :

a) f = open(“demo le.txt”)

b) f = open(“demo le.txt”, “rt”)

c) f = open(“demo le.txt”, “r”)

d) All of the above 

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13. Suppose content of ‘My le.txt’ is: Twinkle twinkle little star How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high Like a
diamond in the sky What will be the output of the following code?

my le = open(“My le.txt”)

data = my le.readlines()

print(len(data))

my le.close()

a) 3

b) 4 

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 c) 5

d) 6

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14. Suppose content of ‘My le.txt’ is Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. What will be the output of the
following code?

my le = open(“My le.txt”)

x = my le.read()

y = x.count(‘the’)

print(y)

my le.close()

a) 2

b) 3 

c) 4

d) 5

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CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 

15. Atif has been asked by his senior to complete the following code. The code uses a text le namely message.txt.

def count_words( lename):

Bigwords=0

F=open( lename,‟r‟)

Data=F.___________ # line 1

words = _____________ # line 2

For w in words :

__________ # line 3

___________# line 4

return bigwords, len(words)

_______ # line 5

print(“total number of words : “,count)

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 print(“No. of big words :”,big)

15.1) Which function is used to read all the content of the le for line1 and store in Data variable in string format.

a) readline()

b) read( le)

c) read() 

d) readlines()

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15.2)Which option is correct for completing line 2

a) Data.split() 

b) Data.Split()

c) f.split()

d) None of the above

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15.3) Which option is correct for completing line 3 and line 4 so that the count of words having length more than 8 characters.

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 a) If w>8 :

bigwords+=1

b) if len(w) >8:

bigwords+=1 

c) if len(w) >=8:

bigwords+=1

d) if len(w) >8:

bigwords+=1

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15.4) Which option is correct for completing line 5 so that function count_words() is called.

a) big ,count= count_words( lename)

b) big ,count= count_words(“message.txt”) 

c) big _count=count_words(“message.txt”)

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 d) big=count_words(“message.txt”) count=count_words(“message.txt”)

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16. Teacher has developed a program to count how many lines start with “T” in a text le “story.txt”. To choose correct option for
executing program successfully.

def countlines():

le= _______ (“story.txt”) #line1

data = __________ #line2

__________# line 3

for I in data :

if _______ : # line4

c+=1

print(“Number of lines start with T “, _____) #line5

16.1) Which function to be used to complete line 1

a) Read()

b) open() 

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 c) read()

d)Open()

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16.2) Which function is used to read the content from the le

a) le.read()

b) readline()

c) le.readlines() 

d) le.readline()

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16.3) Line3- initialize the variable for count

a) c=0 

b) c=c+1

c) both

d) none

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16.4) choose correct condition for line3

a) i==’T’

b) i[0]==’T’ 

c) “i”==T

d) i[0]==T

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16.5) complete the line4

a) c 

b) count

c) I

d) data

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 17. Anisha wants to develop a program to count the number of “Me” or “My” words present in a text le “STORY.TXT” .But she is
not sure about the code . Help her to complete it.

def displayMeMY(): n=0 f=open(“story.txt” , „____‟) #line 1

N = __read() #line2

M = N.________ #line 3

for x in M :

if ____________________: #line 4

n=n+1 f.________ #line 5 Closing the le.

print(“Count of Me /My words : “, ____) #line 6

17.1) Which access mode to be used in line 1 to open the le .

a) w

b) r 

c) rb

d) a

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 17.2) Fill the line 2 by suitable option

a) F.

b) f. 

c) n.

d) N.

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17.3) Which method to be used to complete the line 3

a) readline()

b) split() 

c) write()

d) writelines()

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17.4) select the correct option to complete the line 4

a) x==me or x== my

b) x==”me” or “my”

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 c) x==”Me” or x==”My” 

d) x==[“Me”,”My”]

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17.5) Which function is used to complete line 5.

a) Exit()

b) close() 

c) end()

d) Close()

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18. Rahul is trying to perform write the data to a text le. He is not sure of the commands to be used. Hence partially he could
write the program . Help him to complete the program.

le1 = open(“my le.txt”, ____)#line1

L = [“This is Delhi \n”, “This is Paris \n”, “This is London”]

le1._________(L) #line2

le1.close()

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 le1 = open(“my le.txt”, _____)#line3 opening le to add new data to existing le .

# writing newline character

le1.write(“\n”)

le1._________(“Today”)#line4

18.1) Which access mode to be used in line 1 to open the le for writing on to le.

a) w 

b) w+

c) wr+

d) a

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18.2) Which function to be used in line 2 for writing a list to le.

a) write()

b) writelines() 

c) writerow()

d) writeline()

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18.3) Which access mode to be used in line3 to open the le for writing new content on existing le without any data loss.

a) w

b) w+

c) wr+

d) a 

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18.4) Which function to be used in line4 for writing a list to le.

a) write() 

b) writelines()

c) writerow()

d) writeline()

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 19) Smitha wants to copy text le “Source.txt” onto “target.txt” barring the lines starting with a “@” sign. Help her in completing
the code. def lter(old le, new le):

n=open(old le,___)#line1

fout=open(new le,_____)#line2

while True :

text=__________#line3

if len(text)==0:

break

if text[0]==”@” :

continue

_____.write(text)#line4

n._____ #line5

fout._____#line6

lter(“source.txt”,”target.txt”)

19.1) In which access mode old le to be opened. Complete the line 1 by selecting appropriate option.

a) w

b) r 

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 c) rb

d) a

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19.2) In which access mode new le to be opened. Complete the line 2 by selecting appropriate option.

a) w 

b) r

c) rb

d) a

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19.3) Which of the following function can be used to complete line3 for reading line by line.

a) n.readline() 

b) n.readlines()

c) n.read()

d) fout.readline()

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  Show Answer

19.4) Identify the object that can be used in line4

a) n

b) fout 

c) Fin

d) Fout

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19.5) Identify the function that can be used in line5 and 6 to close the les

a) closed()

b) close() 

c) end()

d)eol()

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 20. Write the output of the following code

f = open(“data.txt”, “r”)

d =read()

d1 = read(5)

print(d)

print(d1)

#data le contains the following data

Welcome to python program

a) Welcome to python program

b) Welco

c) error 

d) None

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21. Your teacher has given you a method/function FilterWords() in python which reads data from a text le NewsLetter.TXT. Your
teachers intentionally kept few blanks in between the code and asked you to ll the blanks so that the code will run to nd
desired result. Do the needful with the following python code.

def FilterWords():

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 c=0

le=open(‘NewsLetter.TXT’, ‘_____’) #Statement-1

data = le._____ #Statement-2

line = _____ #Statement-3

linecount= _____: #Statement-4

print(“No of lines”,linecount)

_________ #Statement-5

FilterWords()

21.1) Fill in the statement 1 with appropriate access mode

a) rb

b) r 

c) w

d)a

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21.2) Fill the statement 2 with appropriate function to read 5 characters

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 a) read()

b) read(5) 

c) readline(5)

d) get(5)

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21.3) Fill the statement 3 to read the remaining content of the le in list form.

a) le.read()

b) le.readlines() 

c) le.readline()

d) readlines()

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21.4) Fill the statement 4 to count the no. of lines in the le.

a) len()

b) len(line) 

c) Len(line)

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 d) len.line

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21.5) Fill in the blank in Statement-5 to close the le.

a) le.close() 

b) File.Close()

c) Close()

d) end()

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22. Renu wants to write multiple lines i.e 5 lines of text content into a text le mylife.txt.But she is not able to do it. Help her to
complete the program.

F =open( ___________) #line 1

________________ #line 2

Line = ____________________#line 3

_____________ #line 4

_____________ #line 5

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 f.close()

22.1) Fill line 1 with correct statement.

a) (“mylife.txt”)

b) (“mylife.txt”,”w”) 

c) (“mylife.txt”, “ wb”)

d) (mylife.txt)

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22.2) Choose the correct option for looping to ll line2

a) For I in range(5):

b) for I in range(1,5):

c) for I in range(5): 

d) for I in range(5)

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22.3) Fill line 3 with correct option to take the input from console IO.

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 a) Input(“enter a line”)

b) input(“enter a line”) 

c) str(“Enter a line”)

d) int(input((“enter a line”) )

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22.4) Fill line 4 with correct option to copy the line to le.

a) write(Line)

b) writeline(Line)

c) F.write(“Line”)

d) F.write(Line) 

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22.5) Fill line 5 with correct option to add new line character after every line.

a) write(“ ”)

b) writeline(“ ”)

c) F.write(“\n”) 

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 d) write(“\n”)

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23. Sonu wants to create one single program to read and write data using a single le object.But she got confused and could not
complete the program. Help her to complete it .

leobject=open(“report.txt”, “____”) # line 1

print (“WRITING DATA IN THE FILE”)

print() # to display a blank line

while True:

line= input(“Enter a sentence “)

leobject.___________ #line2

leobject.write(‘\n’)

choice=input(“Do you wish to enter more data? (y/n): “)

if choice in (‘n’,’N’):

break

print(“The byte position of le object is “, leobject.tell())

leobject._________ # line3

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 print()

print(“READING DATA FROM THE FILE”)

str=_______________ #line4

print(str)

___________ #line 5

23.1) Fill the line1 with appropriate access mode to perform both write and read operations.

a) r+

b) w

c) w+ 

d) a

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23.2) Fill Line 2 to perform write operation on to the le .

a) Writeline(line)

b) write(line) 

c) writelines(line)

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 d) writerow(line)

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23.3) Fill line 3 with correct function that places le object at beginning of le

a) tell()

b) seek(0) 

c) Seek(0)

d) seek()

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23.4) Fill line 4 to read to all the content of the le.

a) leobject.read() 

b) read()

c) leobject.readline()

d) readrow()

 Show Answer

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23.5) Fill line 5 to close the le.

a) leobject.close() 

b) Fileobject.Close()

c) Close()

d) end()

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24. Mr.Ravi, has written code which reads each character of a text le story.txt,and also counts and displays the occurance of
alphabets of A (include small cases „a‟ too).But while doing so ,he is unable to complete the code ,help him to complete the
code.

Ex : If the le content is as follows:

Updated information

As simpli ed by o cial websites.

The function EUcount() will display the output as :

A or a :4

M or m : 2

Code :

def EUcount():

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 ________________ #1 statement to open the le

A=0

_________________ #2 statement to read the data from the le

for x in r:

_________________# 3 statement

A=A+1

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f.close()

print(“A or a:”,A)

24.1) Which of the following commands is used to open the le “Story.txt”? (marked as #1 in the Python code)

a) f= open(“story.txt”,’w’)

b) f= open (“story.txt “,’r’) 

c) f= open (“story.txt “,’r+’)

d) f= open (“story.txt “,’rb’)

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 24.2)Which of the following commands is used to read the data from the le, Story.txt? (marked as #2 in the Python code)

a) f.read( 20)

b) f.read() 

c) f.write(L,F)

d) f=pickle.dump(L)

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24.3)Which of the following commands is used to compare alphabets of A (include small cases “a” too).

a) if x==‟A‟ or x==”a”: 

b) if x==‟A‟ or ”a”:

c) if x=‟A‟ or x=”a”:

d) if x in ‟A‟ or ”a”:

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MCQ Seek and tell methods, manipulation of data in a text file

25. Which function is used to change the position of the File Handle to a given speci c position.

a) seek() 

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 b) read()

c) tail()

d) write()

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26. Seek() function with negative offset only works when le is opened in ——– mode.

a) read mode

b) write mode

c) binary mode 

d) All of these

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27. What is the use of seek() method in les?

a) sets the le‟s current position at the offset

b) sets the le‟s previous position at the offset

c) sets the le‟s current position within the le

d) none of the mentioned

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  Show Answer

28. How do you get the current position within the le?

a) fp.seek()

b) fp.tell() 

c) fp.loc

d) fp.pos

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29. How do you change the le position to an offset value from the start?

a) fp.seek(offset, 0) 

b) fp.seek(offset, 1)

c) fp.seek(offset, 2)

d) none of the mentioned

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 30. What happens if no arguments are passed to the seek function?

a) le position is set to the start of le

b) le position is set to the end of le

c) le position remains unchanged

d) error 

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31. If we open the le in read mode then the initial value of tell() is

a) -1 

b) 0 

c) 1

d) End of the le

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32. How many arguments passed to the tell()?

a) 0 

b) 1

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 c) 2

d) variable number of arguments

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33. Which is the correct statement with respect of seek() function?

a) 0: sets the reference point at the beginning of the le

b) 1: sets the reference point at the current le position

c) 2: sets the reference point at the end of the le

d) All of these 

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34. What is the use of seek() method in les()?

a) sets the le’s current position at the offset 

b) sets the le’s previous position at the offset

c) sets the le’s current position within the le

d) none of the mentioned

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35. Which of the following statements correctly explain the function of tell() method?

a) tells the current position within the le. 

b) indicates that the next read or write will occur at that many bytes from the beginning of the le.

c) move the current le position to a different location.

d) it changes the le position only if allowed to do so else returns an error.

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36. Which of the following statements correctly explain the function of seek() method?

a) tell the current position within the le.

b) indicate that the next read or write occurs from that position in a le.

c) determine if you can move the le position or not.

d) move the current le position to a different location at a de ned offset. 

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 37. Which of the following command is used to open a le “c:\temp.txt” in read-mode only?

a) in le = open(“c:\temp.txt”, “r”)

b) in le = open(“c:\\temp.txt”, “r”) 

c) in le = open( le = “c:\temp.txt”, “r+”)

d) in le = open( le = “c:\\temp.txt”, “r+”)

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38. To read the next line of the le from a le object fobj, we use:

a) fobj.read(2)

b) fobj.read()

c) fobj.readline() 

d) fobj.readlines()

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39. What happens if no arguments are passed to the seek function?

a) le position is set to the start of le

b) le position is set to the end of le

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 c) le position remains unchanged

d) error 

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40. What does the <readlines()> method returns?

a) str

b) a list of lines 

c) list of single characters

d) list of integers

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41. Which of the following command is used to open a le “c:\temp.txt” in append-mode?

a) out le = open(“c:/temp.txt”, “a”) 

b) out le = open(“c:\\temp.txt”, “rw”)

c) out le = open(“c:\temp.txt”, “w+”)

d) out le = open(“c:\\temp.txt”, “r+”)

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42. Which of the following commands can be used to read “n” number of characters from a le using the le object < le>?

a) le.read(n) 

b) n = le.read()

c) le.readline(n)

d) le.readlines()

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43. Which of the following functions can be used to check if a le “logo” exists?

a) os.path.isFile(logo)

b) os.path.exists(logo)

c) os.path.is le(logo) 

d) os.isFile(logo)

 Show Answer

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