Getting rid of bitwise operators in Python 3?

Anurag anuraguniyal at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 08:18:24 EDT 2007


On Sep 22, 8:44 am, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone with me here?  (I know the deadline for P3 PEPs has passed; this
> is just talk.)
>
> Not many people are bit-fiddling these days.  One of the main uses of bit
> fields is flags, but that's not often done in Python because of keyword
> arguments and dicts, which are lot more versatile.  Another major use,
> talking to hardware, is not something oft done in Python either.
>
Actually I think many people are not using many operators now
days..lets remove them all
e.g. I searched one of my downloder script and it doesn't have '+'
operator
lets remove it!

-Anurag




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