new bitwise module [was Re: Discussion: new operators ...]

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCGEHEGNAA.tim_one at email.msn.com>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>Proposing to deprecate the shift and bitwise operators in favor of named
>functions has no chance without a PEP.  I counted three people in all with
>favorable reactions on c.l.py (Paul Foley surely was, as Alex detected,
>gently ribbing it by taking the idea to its logical conclusion and
>reinventing Lisp).  That's a start, but not much support yet.

Well, I have a feeling that bit operators are out of place in core
Python, especially if long ints become standard.  I'm pretty strongly
behind this.
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