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PCAP-31-03 5.5 Perform Input/output Operations PCAP-31 Practice Questions (Page 3)
Part of the Miscellaneous (List Comprehensions, Lambdas, Closures, I/O) domain, which accounts for 22% of the PCAP-31 exam. Python Institute does not publish an official question count, but from its 65-minute exam (~25–45 total, ~6–10 in this domain), expect 1–2 from this objective — we provide 21 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 11–15
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Which method is used to write a string to a file opened in text mode?
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Which errno constant represents the error condition 'No such file or directory'?
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What does the .read() method return when called with no arguments on a text file?
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Which mode string passed to the open() function opens a file for writing only, creating the file if it does not exist and truncating it to zero length if it does exist?
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A developer is processing a large CSV file and must read it one line at a time to minimize memory usage. The file may contain very long lines. Which approach is most memory-efficient?
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