Bitwise Operators in Python
In this post, you will learn how to work with bitwise operators so that you can use that same knowledge and thus evolve.
- bitwise operators operate one bit at a time and having a sense of what the binary code is is important;
1 |
True |
0 |
False |
& |
Only true when both numbers match 1 and 1 |
| |
It is only false when both numbers match 0 and 0 |
<< |
Shift bits according to given number to the left |
>> |
Shift bits according to given number to the right |
- then we also have the operators
^and~; - such operators are mostly used in low-level applications for communication between networks and telecommunications.
x = 60 # 00111100
y = 13 # 00001101
print('Result of operator &:', x & y) # Result of operator &: 12 (00001100)
print('Result of operator |:', x | y) # Result of operator |: 61 (00111101)
print('Result of operator <<:', x << 2) # Result of operator <<: 240 (11110000)
print('Result of operator >>:', x >> 2) # Result of operator >>: 15 (00001111)
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