[issue19251] bitwise ops for bytes of equal length

[cowlicks]

cowlicks added the comment:

To reiterate, this issue would make more readable, secure, and speed up a lot of code.

The concerns about this being a numpy-like vector operation are confusing to me. The current implementation is already vector-like, but lacks size checking. Isn't "int ^ int" really just the xor of two arbitrarily long arrays of binary data? At least with "bytes ^ bytes" we can enforce the arrays be the same size.

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