Python Multiple Choice Questions – Regular Expressions

This set of Python Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Regular Expressions”.

1. Which module in Python supports regular expressions?
a) re
b) regex
c) pyregex
d) none of the mentioned
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2. Which of the following creates a pattern object?
a) re.create(str)
b) re.regex(str)
c) re.compile(str)
d) re.assemble(str)
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3. What does the function re.match do?
a) matches a pattern at the start of the string
b) matches a pattern at any position in the string
c) such a function does not exist
d) none of the mentioned
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4. What does the function re.search do?
a) matches a pattern at the start of the string
b) matches a pattern at any position in the string
c) such a function does not exist
d) none of the mentioned
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5. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'we are humans'
matched = re.match(r'(.*) (.*?) (.*)', sentence)
print(matched.groups())

a) (‘we’, ‘are’, ‘humans’)
b) (we, are, humans)
c) (‘we’, ‘humans’)
d) ‘we are humans’
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6. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'we are humans'
matched = re.match(r'(.*) (.*?) (.*)', sentence)
print(matched.group())

a) (‘we’, ‘are’, ‘humans’)
b) (we, are, humans)
c) (‘we’, ‘humans’)
d) ‘we are humans’
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7. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'we are humans'
matched = re.match(r'(.*) (.*?) (.*)', sentence)
print(matched.group(2))

a) ‘are’
b) ‘we’
c) ‘humans’
d) ‘we are humans’
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8. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'horses are fast'
regex = re.compile('(?P<animal>\w+) (?P<verb>\w+) (?P<adjective>\w+)')
matched = re.search(regex, sentence)
print(matched.groupdict())

a) {‘animal’: ‘horses’, ‘verb’: ‘are’, ‘adjective’: ‘fast’}
b) (‘horses’, ‘are’, ‘fast’)
c) ‘horses are fast’
d) ‘are’
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9. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'horses are fast'
regex = re.compile('(?P<animal>\w+) (?P<verb>\w+) (?P<adjective>\w+)')
matched = re.search(regex, sentence)
print(matched.groups())

a) {‘animal’: ‘horses’, ‘verb’: ‘are’, ‘adjective’: ‘fast’}
b) (‘horses’, ‘are’, ‘fast’)
c) ‘horses are fast’
d) ‘are’
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10. What will be the output of the following Python code?

sentence = 'horses are fast'
regex = re.compile('(?P<animal>\w+) (?P<verb>\w+) (?P<adjective>\w+)')
matched = re.search(regex, sentence)
print(matched.group(2))

a) {‘animal’: ‘horses’, ‘verb’: ‘are’, ‘adjective’: ‘fast’}
b) (‘horses’, ‘are’, ‘fast’)
c) ‘horses are fast’
d) ‘are’
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More MCQs on Python Regular Expressions:

• Python Regular Expressions MCQ (Set 2)
• Python Regular Expressions MCQ (Set 3)
• Python Regular Expressions MCQ (Set 4)
• Python Regular Expressions MCQ (Set 5)
• Python Regular Expressions MCQ (Set 6)

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