Getting rid of bitwise operators in Python 3?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-09-22, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:57:35 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2007-09-22, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Of course it would be.  The reason I mention it is that automatic
>>> convertibility is a key factor in whether a change can make it into
>>> Python 3.
>> 
>> It matters not whether fugly code is automatically generated or manually
>> generated.  It's still hard to read and maintain.
>
> By my understanding, it really doesn't matter that much.
>
> The transition tool's purpose is to allow a subset of 2.x code to run on 
> 3.x, so that developers don't have to maintain separate codebases to 
> support both.  The 3.x code that is produced isn't intended to be read or 
> maintained.  So no big deal if it's a little ugly.

Eh?  If you remove bitwise operators, then doing bitwise
operations is going to be ugly, hard to write, and hard to read
and maintain.  I don't see what 2.x vs. 3.x vs. a "transition
tool" has to do with it.

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