Python Data Structure Exercise for Beginners

This data structure exercise is for beginners to understand and practice data structure in Python. Practice List, Set, Dictionary, and Tuple in Python. As you know data structure is widely to hold any data. To perform any programming tasks in Python, good knowledge of data structure is a must. When you complete each question, you get more familiar with List, Dictionary, set, and tuple.

What included in this data structure exercise?

Questions cover list manipulation, dictionary, set and tuple methods.

• The exercise contains 10 questions.
• The solution provided for each question.
• To solve each question, you need to learn the specific data structure topic.

Practice Questions using Online Code Editor

Exercise Question 1: Given a two list. Create a third list by picking an odd-index element from the first list and even index elements from second.

For Example:

listOne = [3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21]
listTwo = [4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28]

Expected Output:

Element at odd-index positions from list one
[6, 12, 18]
Element at even-index positions from list two
[4, 12, 20, 28]
Printing Final third list
[6, 12, 18, 4, 12, 20, 28]

listOne = [3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21]
listTwo = [4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28]
listThree = list()

oddElements = listOne[1::2]
print("Element at odd-index positions from list one")
print(oddElements)

EvenElement = listTwo[0::2]
print("Element at even-index positions from list two")
print(EvenElement)

print("Printing Final third list")
listThree.extend(oddElements)
listThree.extend(EvenElement)
print(listThree)

Exercise Question 2: Given an input list removes the element at index 4 and add it to the 2nd position and also, at the end of the list

For example: List = [54, 44, 27, 79, 91, 41]

Expected Output:

Original list  [34, 54, 67, 89, 11, 43, 94]
List After removing element at index 4  [34, 54, 67, 89, 43, 94]
List after Adding element at index 2  [34, 54, 11, 67, 89, 43, 94]
List after Adding element at last  [34, 54, 11, 67, 89, 43, 94, 11]

sampleList = [34, 54, 67, 89, 11, 43, 94]

print("Original list ", sampleList)
element = sampleList.pop(4)
print("List After removing element at index 4 ", sampleList)

sampleList.insert(2, element)
print("List after Adding element at index 2 ", sampleList)

sampleList.append(element)
print("List after Adding element at last ", sampleList)

Exercise Question 3: Given a list slice it into a 3 equal chunks and rever each list

For Example: sampleList = [11, 45, 8, 23, 14, 12, 78, 45, 89]

Expected Outcome:

Original list  [11, 45, 8, 23, 14, 12, 78, 45, 89]
Chunk  1 [11, 45, 8]
After reversing it  [8, 45, 11]
Chunk  2 [23, 14, 12]
After reversing it  [12, 14, 23]
Chunk  3 [78, 45, 89]
After reversing it  [89, 45, 78]

sampleList = [11, 45, 8, 23, 14, 12, 78, 45, 89]
print("Original list ", sampleList)

length = len(sampleList)
chunkSize  = int(length/3)
start = 0
end = chunkSize
for i in range(1, 4, 1):
  indexes = slice(start, end, 1)
  listChunk = sampleList[indexes]
  print("Chunk ", i , listChunk)
  print("After reversing it ", list(reversed(listChunk)))
  start = end
  if(i != 2):
    end +=chunkSize
  else:
    end += length - chunkSize

Exercise Question 4: Given a list iterate it and count the occurrence of each element and create a dictionary to show the count of each element

Expected Output:

Original list  [11, 45, 8, 11, 23, 45, 23, 45, 89]
Printing count of each item   {11: 2, 45: 3, 8: 1, 23: 2, 89: 1}

sampleList = [11, 45, 8, 11, 23, 45, 23, 45, 89]
print("Original list ", sampleList)

countDict = dict()
for item in sampleList:
  if(item in countDict):
    countDict[item] += 1
  else:
    countDict[item] = 1
  
print("Printing count of each item  ",countDict)

Exercise Question 5: Given a two list of equal size create a set such that it shows the element from both lists in the pair

Expected Output:

First List  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Second List  [4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64]
Result is  {(6, 36), (8, 64), (4, 16), (5, 25), (3, 9), (7, 49), (2, 4)}

firstList = [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
print("First List ", firstList)

secondList = [4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64]
print("Second List ", secondList)

result = zip(firstList, secondList)
resultSet = set(result)
print(resultSet)

Exercise Question 6: Given a following two sets find the intersection and remove those elements from the first set

Expected Output:

First Set  {65, 42, 78, 83, 23, 57, 29}
Second Set  {67, 73, 43, 48, 83, 57, 29}

Intersection is  {57, 83, 29}
First Set after removing common element  {65, 42, 78, 23}

firstSet  = {23, 42, 65, 57, 78, 83, 29}
secondSet = {57, 83, 29, 67, 73, 43, 48}

print("First Set ", firstSet)
print("Second Set ", secondSet)

intersection = firstSet.intersection(secondSet)
print("Intersection is ", intersection)
for item in intersection:
  firstSet.remove(item)

print("First Set after removing common element ", firstSet)

Exercise Question 7: Given two sets, Checks if One Set is Subset or superset of Another Set. if the subset is found delete all elements from that set

For Example:

firstSet = {27, 43, 34}
secondSet = {34, 93, 22, 27, 43, 53, 48}

Expected Output:

First Set  {57, 83, 29}
Second Set  {67, 73, 43, 48, 83, 57, 29}

First set is subset of second set - True
Second set is subset of First set -  False

First set is Super set of second set -  False
Second set is Super set of First set -  True

First Set  set()
Second Set  {67, 73, 43, 48, 83, 57, 29}

firstSet  = {57, 83, 29}
secondSet = {57, 83, 29, 67, 73, 43, 48}

print("First Set ", firstSet)
print("Second Set ", secondSet)

print("First set is subset of second set -", firstSet.issubset(secondSet))
print("Second set is subset of First set - ", secondSet.issubset(firstSet))

print("First set is Super set of second set - ", firstSet.issuperset(secondSet))
print("Second set is Super set of First set - ", secondSet.issuperset(firstSet))

if(firstSet.issubset(secondSet)):
  firstSet.clear()
  
if(secondSet.issubset(firstSet)):
  secondSet.clear()

print("First Set ", firstSet)
print("Second Set ", secondSet)

Exercise Question 8: Iterate a given list and Check if a given element already exists in a dictionary as a key’s value if not delete it from the list

Given:

rollNumber = [47, 64, 69, 37, 76, 83, 95, 97]
sampleDict ={'Jhon':47, 'Emma':69, 'Kelly':76, 'Jason':97}

Expected Outcome:

after removing unwanted elemnts from list [47, 69, 76, 97]

rollNumber  = [47, 64, 69, 37, 76, 83, 95, 97]
sampleDict  ={'Jhon':47, 'Emma':69, 'Kelly':76, 'Jason':97} 

print("List -", rollNumber)
print("Dictionary - ", sampleDict)

rollNumber[:] = [item for item in rollNumber if item in sampleDict.values()]
print("after removing unwanted elemnts from list ", rollNumber)

List - [47, 64, 69, 37, 76, 83, 95, 97]
Dictionary -  {'Jhon': 47, 'Emma': 69, 'Kelly': 76, 'Jason': 97}
[47, 69, 76, 97]
after removing unwanted elemnts from list  [47, 69, 76, 97]

Exercise Question 9: Given a dictionary get all values from the dictionary and add it in a list but don’t add duplicates

Given:

speed ={'jan':47, 'feb':52, 'march':47, 'April':44, 'May':52, 'June':53, 'july':54, 'Aug':44, 'Sept':54}

Expected Outcome: [47, 52, 44, 53, 54]

speed  ={'jan':47, 'feb':52, 'march':47, 'April':44, 'May':52, 'June':53,
          'july':54, 'Aug':44, 'Sept':54} 

print("Dictionary's values - ", speed.values())

speedList = list()
for item in speed.values():
  if item not in speedList:
    speedList.append(item)
print("unique list", speedList)

Dictionary's values -  dict_values([47, 52, 47, 44, 52, 53, 54, 44, 54])
unique list [47, 52, 44, 53, 54]

Exercise Question 10: Remove duplicate from a list and create a tuple and find the minimum and maximum number

For Example:

sampleList = [87, 45, 41, 65, 94, 41, 99, 94]

Expected Outcome:

unique items [87, 45, 41, 65, 99]
tuple (87, 45, 41, 65, 99)
min: 41
max: 99

sampleList = [87, 52, 44, 53, 54, 87, 52, 53]

print("Original list", sampleList)

sampleList = list(set(sampleList))
print("unique list", sampleList)

tuple = tuple(sampleList)
print("tuple ", tuple)

print("Minimum number is: ", min(tuple))
print("Maximum number is: ", max(tuple))

Original list [87, 52, 44, 53, 54, 87, 52, 53]
unique list [44, 52, 53, 54, 87]
tuple  (44, 52, 53, 54, 87)
Minimum number is:  44
Maximum number is:  87