Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Another possibility if you don't mind a copy is to use int.from_bytes():
>>> p = int.from_bytes(a, 'little') >>> q = int.from_bytes(b, 'little') >>> (p ^ q).to_bytes(len(a), 'little') b'qPP' ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19251> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com