Does Python need a '>>>' operator?

[Alex Martelli]

Huaiyu Zhu wrote:
        ...
>>A simple histogram of non-alphameric tokens in Lib/*.py only partially
>>conforts this thesis:
> [snip statistics show small usage of & ~ | ^]

Well, & showed up better than I thought it would, actually.

> Do you plan to revive the bitwise module you wrote sometime ago?

Guess it should be PEPped.  But I don't think the powers that be
will stand for any eventual deprecation of the bitwise ops, so it
looks like a futile exercise.


Alex