[Python-Dev] bitwise operations for bytes and bytearray

[Blake Griffith]

Thanks for the quick responses y'all. I have something compiling on my
branch, which is enough for me tonight.

I asked a question about this on stackoverflow a while ago, it wasn't very
popular
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32658420/why-cant-you-xor-bytes-objects-in-python

Someone there pointed out this feature was suggested on the mailing list a
while back (2006)
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/061980.html

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Jan 7, 2016, at 15:57, Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 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>.
>
> And it's in the needs patch stage, which makes it perfect for the OP: in
> addition to learning how to hack on builtin types, he can also learn the
> other parts of the dev process. (Even if the bug is eventually rejected, as
> seems likely given that it sat around for three years with no compelling
> use case  and then Guido added a "very skeptical" comment.)
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