>> operator in Python

Question

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

Answer 1

Its the right shift operator.

10 in binary is 1010 now >> 1 says to right shift by 1, effectively loosing the least significant bit to give 101, which is 5 represented in binary.

In effect it divides the number by 2.