Operator '^'

Question

What does the list operator '^' do?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

^ is the bitwise XOR (exclusive or - one or the other but not both) operator. See
https://jakevdp.github.io/WhirlwindTourOfPython/04-semantics-operators.html#Bitwise-Operations

The ^ operator will perform a binary XOR in which a binary 1 is copied if and only if it is the value of exactly one operand. Another way of stating this is that the result is 1 only if the operands are different.

Examples include:
# 0 ^ 0 = 0
# 0 ^ 1 = 1
# 1 ^ 0 = 1
# 1 ^ 1 = 0
# 60 = 0b111100
# 30 = 0b011110
60 ^ 30
# Out: 34
# 34 = 0b100010