From bd63d489363ea6c0462eedcb2459894b709ce5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anshuman Sinha <138311612+anshumansinha3301@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:16:14 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Create Swap_odd_even_bits.py

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 snippets/python/Swap_odd_even_bits.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 snippets/python/Swap_odd_even_bits.py

diff --git a/snippets/python/Swap_odd_even_bits.py b/snippets/python/Swap_odd_even_bits.py
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/snippets/python/Swap_odd_even_bits.py
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+def swapOddEvenBits(n):
+    # 0xAAAAAAAA = 101010...10 (32 bits), mask to extract even-positioned bits
+    even_bits = n & 0xAAAAAAAA
+    # 0x55555555 = 010101...01 (32 bits), mask to extract odd-positioned bits
+    odd_bits = n & 0x55555555
+    
+    # Right shift even bits, left shift odd bits
+    even_bits >>= 1
+    odd_bits <<= 1
+    
+    return even_bits | odd_bits
+
+print(swapOddEvenBits(23))  # Output would be 43 for input 23 (0b10111 -> 0b101011)