[Python-Dev] bitwise operations for bytes and bytearray

[Martin Panter]

On 7 January 2016 at 22:26, Blake Griffith <blake.a.griffith at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm interested in adding the functionality to do something like:
>
>>>>  b'a' ^ b'b'
> b'\x03'
>
>
> Instead of the good ol' TypeError.
>
> I think both bytes and bytearray should support all the bitwise operations.

There is a bug open about adding this kind of functionality:
<https://bugs.python.org/issue19251>.