**Bitwise operators** are used to perform bitwise operations on binary patterns. These operators work efficiently. All the binary operators are **in-fix** except for the **not** operator.


# Types of bitwise operators

| operator    |  description   | example|
| --- | --- | --- |
|  `&`  (AND)  | The bits that are set in both operands are set.    | (10101010) & (11111111) = (10101010)    |
| `|`  (OR) | The bits that are set in either of the two operands are set.|(10101010) \| (11111111) = (11111111) |
| `^`  (XOR)| he bits that are set in only one, not both, or the operands are set.|(10101010) ^ (11111111) = (01010101) |
|`~` (NOT)| Its unary operator, and the bits that are set, will be unset.|~ (10101010) = (01010101)|
| `<<`  (SHIFT LEFT)| It shift the bits of operand1 operand2 times to the left| (10101010) << (00000011) = (01010000) |
| `>>` (SHIFT RIGHT) | It shift the bits of operand1 operand2 times to the right |(10101010) >> (00000011) = (00001010)|

## Example

In the below output **0b** is used to represent the binary number.

# assignment operators
x = 12 # (00001100)
y = 6  # (00000110)

# The bin() function is used to print in binary format.

print ('x =', x ,' and y =',y)
# and operator
print ('x & y is equal to', bin(x & y))
# or operator
print ('x | y is equal to', bin(x | y))
# xor operator 
print ('x ^ y is equal to', bin(x ^ y))
# shift left operator
print ('x << y is equal to', bin(x << y))
# shift right operator
print ('x >> y is equal to', bin(x >> y))
# not operator
print ('~ x is equal to', bin(~ x ))

operator	description	example
`&` (AND)	The bits that are set in both operands are set.	(10101010) & (11111111) = (10101010)
`\|` (OR)	The bits that are set in either of the two operands are set.	(10101010) \| (11111111) = (11111111)
`^` (XOR)	he bits that are set in only one, not both, or the operands are set.	(10101010) ^ (11111111) = (01010101)
`~` (NOT)	Its unary operator, and the bits that are set, will be unset.	~ (10101010) = (01010101)
`<<` (SHIFT LEFT)	It shift the bits of operand1 operand2 times to the left	(10101010) << (00000011) = (01010000)
`>>` (SHIFT RIGHT)	It shift the bits of operand1 operand2 times to the right	(10101010) >> (00000011) = (00001010)

What are bitwise operators in Python?

Types of bitwise operators

Example