[New-bugs-announce] [issue19251] bitwise ops for bytes of equal length

[Christian Heimes]

New submission from Christian Heimes:

I like to propose a new feature for bytes and perhaps bytearray. None of the bytes types support bitwise operations like &, | and ^. I like to add the bitwise protocol between byte objects of equal length:

>>> a, b = b"123", b"abc"
>>> bytes(x ^ y for x, y in zip(a, b)) 
b'PPP'
>>> a ^ b
b'PPP'

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 199785
nosy: christian.heimes
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: bitwise ops for bytes of equal length
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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