100 Python Quiz Questions & Answers 2026

Python Basics — 25 Questions

1. Who created Python? (Guido van Rossum — released in 1991)
2. What is Python's design philosophy? (Readability and simplicity — "There should be one obvious way to do it")
3. What is Python's file extension? (.py)
4. How do you print in Python? (print("Hello"))
5. What are Python's basic data types? (int, float, str, bool, list, tuple, dict, set)
6. What is the difference between list and tuple? (List is mutable; tuple is immutable)
7. How do you create a dictionary in Python? (d = {"key": "value"} or dict())
8. What is a Python set? (Unordered collection of unique elements)
9. How do you define a function? (def function_name(parameters):)
10. What is a lambda function? (Anonymous function — lambda x: x*2)
11. What does "self" refer to in Python? (Reference to the current instance of the class)
12. What is list comprehension? ([expression for item in iterable if condition])
13. What is a generator? (Function using yield — generates values lazily)
14. What is PEP 8? (Python's official style guide for code formatting)
15. How do you handle exceptions in Python? (try: ... except ExceptionType: ...)
16. What is the difference between == and is? (== checks value equality; is checks object identity)
17. What does the * operator do in function args? (*args captures variable positional arguments as a tuple)
18. What does **kwargs do? (Captures variable keyword arguments as a dictionary)
19. What is a decorator? (Function that modifies another function — @decorator syntax)
20. What is the with statement used for? (Context manager — automatically handles setup/teardown)
21. How do you import a module? (import module_name or from module import function)
22. What is __init__.py? (Marks directory as a Python package)
23. What is a virtual environment? (Isolated Python environment for project dependencies)
24. What is pip? (Python package installer — pip install package_name)
25. What is the difference between append() and extend() for lists? (append adds one element; extend adds all elements from iterable)

Python Libraries & Frameworks — 25 Questions

1. What is NumPy used for? (Numerical computing — efficient array operations)
2. What is Pandas used for? (Data analysis and manipulation with DataFrames)
3. What is Matplotlib used for? (Creating charts and visualizations)
4. What is Django? (High-level Python web framework — "batteries included")
5. What is Flask? (Lightweight micro web framework for Python)
6. What is FastAPI? (Modern, fast web framework for building APIs)
7. What is TensorFlow? (Google's ML/AI library for deep learning)
8. What is PyTorch? (Facebook's deep learning framework — popular in research)
9. What is Scikit-learn? (Machine learning library with easy-to-use tools)
10. What is Requests? (Python library for making HTTP requests)
11. What is BeautifulSoup? (HTML/XML parsing for web scraping)
12. What is Selenium? (Web browser automation for testing)
13. What is SQLAlchemy? (Python SQL toolkit and ORM)
14. What is Celery? (Asynchronous task queue for Python)
15. What is Pytest? (Python testing framework)