How or operator works?

Question

Can someone explain me how this works (in Python):

print(5|3)
Output is 7

I have understood that | is OR operator. But I haven't found logic how it works in my example above.

Answer 1

OR (|) is a bitwise operator in Python that works on two operands which are in the form of bits i.e. binary operators.
The bitwise OR works in the following order :
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| Op 1 | Op 2 | Result |
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| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
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So wherever there is 1 in a single operand the result will always be 1. Otherwise it will be 0.
If we perform the operation 5|3 the result will be :
5 : 0000 0101
3 : 0000 0011
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_ : 0000 0111
As the Decimal Value Of 0000 0111 is 7. So 5|3 is 7.

Answer 2

The bit operators compare the bit patterns of the numbers.

| sets the bit to 1 if at least one of the two compared bits is 1.

5 in binary is 101.
3 in binary is 011.
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So the result: 111

which equals to 7 in decimal system.