Python Interview Specific Coding Questions

Here’s a list of the most repeated Python coding questions that I’ve seen in interviews over the years (and some based on current trends).
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(Remember: These are Python-specific, but in interviews, many language-agnostic problems can also come.)

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- Square all elements in a list using list comprehension
- Shallow copy vs Deep copy with example
- Reverse a string without slicing
- Reverse only first and last word in a string
- Remove duplicates from a list (without using set)
- Count how many times a character is repeated in a string
- Swap keys and values in a dict using dict comprehension
- Find second largest number in a list
- Frequency of elements in list/dict
- Find common elements in 2 lists (without using set)
- Two sum problem
- lambda function to iterate through a loop (to understand our logics related to lambda)