bitwise not - not what I expected

[Carl Banks]

Elaine Jackson wrote:
> <snip>
> | Python can't *guess* how many bits you want to keep.
> 
> ** But it could if someone had told it that the leftmost nonzero
> digit is the place to start. I just assumed somebody had told it
> that.


And if someone had done that, it would violate the invariant:

~(~x) == x

In fact, by repeatedly applying ~ you'd eventually zero all the bits.



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