Shift Bitwise Operations
Last modified: 2023-08-29
Basic
Left Bit Shift
Assume we want to left bit shift the binary 0100 as below.
0100 -> 1000
We can achieve this using the << operator in Python.
0b100 << 1
# 8 ('1000' in binary)
4 << 1
# 8 ('1000' in binary)
# Output as the binary representation
bin(8 << 1)
# 0b1000
Right Bit Shift
Assume we want to right bit shift the binary 0100 as below.
0100 -> 0010
We can achieve this using the >> operator in Python.
0b100 >> 1
# 2 ('10' in binary)
4 >> 1
# 2 ('10' in binary)
bin(4 >> 1)
# 0b10