Operators in Python

Les Operateurs en Python

What’s an operator ? Qu’est ce qu’un
operateur
• As defined before an operator is a specific symbol, that makes a
specific operation on variables
• it’s important to know how to use them, and how they work
• Operators by give different results with different types of varibles
• There is seven families’ operators, here we will see only five :
• Arithmetic operators
• Assignment operators
• Bitwise operators
• Comparison operators
• Logical operators
• Membership operators
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Arithmetic Operators :
Operateurs Arithmétiques:

Symbol Operation Example with result

** Exponentiatio 3**2 gives 9
n
* Multiplication 5.4 *2 gives 10.8
/ Division 6.5/2 gives 3.25
// Floor division 6.5//2 gives 3.0
+ Addition 110+10 gives 120
‐ Soubstraction 110‐10 gives 100
% Modulus 6.5//2 gives 0.5
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 Assignment operators Opérateurs d’affectation

Symbol Operation Example with result equivalent

= Assignement operation x=5 gives to x the value 5
+= Addition assignment x+=5 adds 5 to x value and overwrites its old x=x+5
value
‐= substraction assignment x‐=5 substracts 5 to x value and overwrites its x=x‐5
old value
*= multiplication X*=5 multiplies the x value by 5 and x=x*5
assignment overwrites its old value
/= Division assignment x/=5 divides the x value by 5 and overwrites its x=x/5
old value
//= Floor division x//=5 performs floor division of x by 5 and x=x//5
assignment overwrites its old value
**= Exponent assignment x**=5 puts x to the power 5 and overwrites its x=x**5
old value
%= Remainder assignment x%=5 gives the remainder of the floor division x=x%5
of x by 5 and overwrites its old value
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Comparison Operators
Operateurs de comparaison

Symbol Operation Example with result

== Equal to ‐2==0 gives False
!= Not equal ‐2!=0 gives True
> Greater than 8.5>8.1 gives True
< Less than 8.5<8.1 gives False
>= Greater than or Equal x=0 and x>=0 gives True
<= Less than or Equal x=0 and x<=0 gives False

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 Logical Operators
Operateurs logiques

Symbol Operation Rules Example with result

and Expr1 and Returns True if both expr1 and (2<3) and (3<2) returns False
Expr2 expr2 are True
or Expr1 or Expr2 Returns True if one of expr1 or (2<3) or (3<2) returns True
expr2 is True
not not Expr Returns True if Expr is False vice not(2<3) returns False
versa not(3<2) returns True

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Membership Operators
Operateurs d’appartenance

Symbol Rules Example with result

in Returns True, if element is part of the set 3 in [0, 3, 5,7,9] returns True
not in Returns True, if element is not part of the set 3 not in [0, 3, 5,7,9] returns False

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Bitwise Operators
operteurs binaires

Symbol name Example with result

& and 3 & 4 returns 0
| or 3 | 4 returns 7
^ xor 3 ^ 4 returns 7
~ not ~3 returns‐ 4, bits inversion and
use of 2’s complement
<< Zero fill left shift 3<<2 returns 12
>> Signed right shift x>>2 returns 3

(3)b=0000 0011 (3)b&(4)b (3)b|(4)b (3)b^(4)b

(4)b=0000 0100 0000 0011 0000 0011 0000 0011
& | ^
0000 0100 0000 0100 0000 0100
0000 0000 =0 0000 0111 =7 0000 0111 =7

Remplaced by 0
(3) b<<1 out 0000 0110=(6)b
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Operators Precedence
Priorité des opérateurs

Level Symbol name Level Symbol name

1st () Parentheses 8th ^ Bitwise xor
2nd ** Exponentiation 9th | Bitwise or
3rd +x,‐x,~x Unary plus and minus, bitwise 10th ==,!=,<,<=,>,>= comparaison operators
Not in, not in Membership operators
4th *,/,//,% Multiplication, division, floor 11th not Logical not
division, modulus
12th and Logical and
5th +,‐ Modulus, substraction
13th or Logical or
6th << , >> Bitwise left and right shifts
7th & Bitwise and

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