>> operator in Python

Question

What does the >> operator do? For example, what does the following operation 10 >> 1 = 5 do?

Answer 1

You can actually overloads right-shift operation(>>) yourself.

>>> class wierd(str): 
... def __rshift__(self,other): 
... print self, 'followed by', other 
... 
>>> foo = wierd('foo') 
>>> bar = wierd('bar') 
>>> foo>>bar 
foo followed by bar 

Reference: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/python/122384