Thanks for the quick responses y'all. I have something compiling on my branch, which is enough for me tonight.
I asked a question about this on stackoverflow a while ago, it wasn't very popular https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32658420/why-cant-you-xor-bytes-objects-in-python Someone there pointed out this feature was suggested on the mailing list a while back (2006) https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/061980.html On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 1:12 AM, Andrew Barnert <abarn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Jan 7, 2016, at 15:57, Martin Panter <vadmium...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 7 January 2016 at 22:26, Blake Griffith <blake.a.griff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I'm interested in adding the functionality to do something like: > >> > >>>>> b'a' ^ b'b' > >> b'\x03' > >> > >> > >> Instead of the good ol' TypeError. > >> > >> I think both bytes and bytearray should support all the bitwise > operations. > > > > There is a bug open about adding this kind of functionality: > > <https://bugs.python.org/issue19251>. > > And it's in the needs patch stage, which makes it perfect for the OP: in > addition to learning how to hack on builtin types, he can also learn the > other parts of the dev process. (Even if the bug is eventually rejected, as > seems likely given that it sat around for three years with no compelling > use case and then Guido added a "very skeptical" comment.)
_______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
