cowlicks added the comment:
I'll look through the list @serhiy.storchaka posted and make sure this still
seems sane to me.
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cowlicks added the comment:
@gvanrossum in this previous comment
https://bugs.python.org/issue19251?@ok_message=msg%20264184%20created%0Aissue%2019251%20message_count%2C%20messages%20edited%20ok&@template=item#msg257964
I pointed out code from the wild which would be more readable, and po
cowlicks added the comment:
To reiterate, this issue would make more readable, secure, and speed up a lot
of code.
The concerns about this being a numpy-like vector operation are confusing to
me. The current implementation is already vector-like, but lacks size checking.
Isn't "
cowlicks added the comment:
@Andrew Barnert
> Maybe if you're coming to Python from...
I'm not sure if your trying argue that my expectations are unusual? Python is
my first programming language. To reiterate: I expected cpython to support
bitwise operations on binary data. I don
cowlicks added the comment:
I've attached a diff that adds ^, |, and & to bytes and bytearray object on the
master branch (err the analogous hg thing).
It also includes a test file which definitely is in the wrong place, but
demonstrates what is working.
Personally this came up wh
