"Greg Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Baptiste Carvello wrote: > [Baptiste] >> while manipulating binary data will happen mostly with bytes objects, >> some >> operations are better done with ints, like the bit manipulations with the >> &|~^ >> operators.
[Greg] > Why not just support bitwise operations directly > on the bytes object? Well, what's the result of bytes([1,0,0])^ bytes([1,0]) ? Is it bytes([0,0,0]) (à la little-endian) or is it bytes([1,1,0]) (straight conversion to base-256)? Or perhaps throw a ValueError if the sizes differ? These details should be considered in the PEP. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
