[Python-Dev] bytes thoughts

[Greg Ewing]

Baptiste Carvello wrote:

> while manipulating binary data will happen mostly with bytes objects, some 
> operations are better done with ints, like the bit manipulations with the &|~^ 
> operators.

Why not just support bitwise operations directly
on the bytes object?

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