How ^ symbol works in Python ?

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print (3^4)
How the above line executing. Kindly explain how it works?

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print (3^4)
How the above line executing. Kindly explain how it works?

Posted 28-Mar-21 4:43am

hari kumar 2021

Updated 28-Mar-21 5:16am

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Tony Hill · Answer 1 · 2021-03-28T05:01:00

Solution 1

The ^ char is a logical XOR operator. It compares the individual bits in both arguments, it returns 1 if one of the bits is and the other is 0.

     3 = 0011
     4 = 0100

Answer = 0111

Posted 28-Mar-21 5:01am

Tony Hill

Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2021-03-28T05:05:00

That is the bitwise XOR operator, which operates on binary values.

3 decimal is 0011 binary
4 decimal is 0100 binary
The XOR operator matches when one number has a 1 and the other has a zero in a position.
So an XOR of 0011
         and 0100
             ====
       gives 0111 which equals 7 in decimal.

See operator — Standard operators as functions — Python 3.9.2 documentation[^] for full details.

Patrice T · Answer 3 · 2021-03-28T05:16:00

Solution 3

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How the above line executing. Kindly explain how it works?

Python

print (3^4)
#       ^ anything at this place is an operator

Look at documentation: Python Operators[^]

Posted 28-Mar-21 5:16am

Patrice T