IT 116: Introduction to Scripting

IT 116: Introduction to Scripting
Quiz 9 Answers

What Python statements should you put inside the try block of a try/except statement.
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any statement that can cause a runtime error
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Can there be different except clauses for different exceptions?
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yes
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When is the code in the else block of a try/except statement executed?

after all the statements in the try block have run
without raising an exception

When is the code in the finally block of a try/except statement executed?

after all the statements in the try block and
all exception handlers have run

What do you call a collection of things stored one right after another?
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a sequence
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What is a list?
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a sequence object that can be changed
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What is a tuple?

a sequence object that cannot be changed

Write an assignment statement that creates an empty list and assigns it to the variable empty.
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empty = []
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Write an assignment statement that creates a list of the first 5 integers and assigns it to the variable l1.
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l1 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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What expression would you write to get the number of values in the list l1?
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len(l1)
```