What do >> and << mean in Python?

Question

I notice that I can do things like 2 << 5 to get 64 and 1000 >> 2 to get 250.

Also I can use >> in pri

Answer 1

They are bit shift operator which exists in many mainstream programming languages, << is the left shift and >> is the right shift, they can be demonstrated as the following table, assume an integer only take 1 byte in memory.

| operate | bit value | octal value |                       description                        |
| ------- | --------- | ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
|         | 00000100  |           4 |                                                          |
| 4 << 2  | 00010000  |          16 | move all bits to left 2 bits, filled with 0 at the right |
| 16 >> 2 | 00000100  |           4 | move all bits to right 2 bits, filled with 0 at the left |