On Sep 22, 3:29 pm, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:50:12 +0000, Paddy wrote: > > Sorry Carl, > > I think *you* may not have much need for bitwise operators but others, > > including myself do. No matter what the usage found, I would think > > replacing bitwise operators by function calls a retrograde step. > > Well, if people are going to take the suggestion this personally, maybe > that's reason enough not to bother. > > Carl Banks
If you want to push it further, one argument could be along the lines of "ok, apparently bit fiddling is important for some classes of problems but so are regular expressions. Are bit operations so frequent and/or important to grant them around a dozen of operators while there are none for regexps ?" George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
