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What does the &= operator do in Python?
The += operator is syntactic sugar for object.__iand__() function. From the python docs:
These methods are called to implement the augmented arithmetic assignments (+=, -=, *=, @=, /=, //=, %=, **=, <<=, >>=, &=, ^=, |=). These methods should attempt to do the operation in-place (modifying self) and return the result (which could be, but does not have to be, self).
Example
So when you do something like −
a = 6 # 110 in binary b = 5 # 101 in binary a &= b # a changes to and of 110 and 101, ie, 100, ie, 4 print(a)
Output
This will give the output −
15
a is being modified in place here. You can read more about such operators on https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__iand__.
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