Finally, you can also use the left shift (<<) and right shift (>>) operators to slide masks into place.

a = 0b101 
# Tenth bit mask
mask = (0b1 << 9)  # One less than ten 
desired = a ^ mask

Let’s say that I want to turn on the 10th bit from the right of the integer a.

Instead of writing out the entire number, we slide a bit over using the << operator.

We use 9 because we only need to slide the mask nine places over from the first bit to reach the tenth bit.