Christos Georgiou wrote: > 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? In the interests of refusing the temptation to guess, I'd go for the ValueError. Greg