[Python-Dev] bytes thoughts

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 2 10:19:55 CET 2006


Greg Ewing wrote:
> Baptiste Carvello wrote:
> 
>> while manipulating binary data will happen mostly with bytes objects, some 
>> operations are better done with ints, like the bit manipulations with the &|~^ 
>> operators.
> 
> Why not just support bitwise operations directly
> on the bytes object?
> 

+1!

Cheers,
Nick.

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