[Python-ideas] Bitwise operations on bytes class

[Nathaniel McCallum]

I find myself, fairly often, needing to perform bitwise operations
(rshift, lshift, and, or, xor) on arrays of bytes in python (both bytes
and bytearray). I can't think of any other reasonable use for these
operators. Is upstream Python interested in this kind of behavior by
default? At the least, it would make many algorithms very easy to read
and write.

Nathaniel