``` Operations on this class interpret this bit pattern either as an integer, which can be signed or unsigned depending on the value's :meth:`shape`, or as a bit container. In either case, the semantics of operations that implement Python's syntax, like :pc:`+` (also known as :meth:`__add__`), are identical to the corresponding operation on a Python :class:`int` (or on a Python sequence container). ``` not strictly true, `~` doesn't behave like that