[Python-Dev] bitwise operations for bytes and bytearray

[Martin Panter]

On 10 January 2016 at 00:17, Blake Griffith <blake.a.griffith at gmail.com> wrote:
> A little update, I got ^, &, and | working for bytearrays. You can view the
> diff here:
> https://github.com/python/cpython/compare/master...cowlicks:bitwise-bytes?expand=1
>
> How does it look?

I left some comments against your commits on Git Hub. Unfortunately
they seem to be made in the base Python repository, rather than your
fork, which I did not expect.

> Joe, is this how I should allocate the arrays? Am I freeing them properly?
> Am I checking the input enough?
>
> After some feedback, I'll probably add bitshifting and negation. Then work
> on bytes objects.
>
> Does this warrant a pep?