[issue19251] bitwise ops for bytes of equal length

[Guido van Rossum]

Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Can you point to some examples of existing code that would become more
readable and faster when this feature exists? Separately, how is it more
secure?

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:17 AM, cowlicks <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:

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> cowlicks added the comment:
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> To reiterate, this issue would make more readable, secure, and speed up a
> lot of code.
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> 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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