Alex Martelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still vaguely hope that in 3.0, where backwards incompatibilities > can be introduced, Python may shed some rarely used operators such as > these (for all types, of course).
I hope there is no serious plan to drop them. There is nothing wrong in having such operators, and I wouldn't flag bit operations as "rarely used". They are very common when calling C-based API and other stuff. I know I use them very often. They have a clear and well-understood meaning, as they appear identical in other languages, including the widely-spread C and C++. Giovanni Bajo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
