[Python-ideas] Bitwise operations on bytes class

[Nick Coghlan]

On 18 Jun 2014 09:31, "MRAB" <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
> On 2014-06-17 23:10, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> >
> > Wanting an arithmetic shift would be a sign that one is working with
integers rather than arbitrary binary data, and ints or one of the fixed
width types from NumPy would likely be a better fit. So leaving that out of
any proposal sounds fine to me.
> >
> What about rotates?

Bitwise rotation would be a bit of a pain to build on top of bitwise
masking and logical shifts, but it could be done, so I think it would make
more sense to keep a proposal minimal.

Cheers,
Nick.

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