[Tutor] Extracting bits from an array

[Peter Otten]

Peter Otten wrote:

> Anish Kumar wrote:
> 
>> Right shifting is well defined in Python?
> 
> Yes. What might surprise someone used to fixed-size integers:
> 
>>>> -1 >> 1
> -1
> 
> Any negative int will eventually end as -1:
> 
>>>> -1234 >> 10
> -2
>>>> -1234 >> 11
> -1

I just checked and C works the same. Sorry for spreading misinformation.