Tell me the meaning please!

Question

What's the meaning of " ~ " symbol in python?
Actually i just wrote it as -
print(~~~2017+1)
output-
-2017

Huh! I don't know its meaning, will someone help?

Answer 1

The tilde ~ is a bitwise complement or bitwise not operator. It does a logical negation flipping all of the bits.

https://realpython.com/JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-bitwise-operators/#bitwise-not