[Python-ideas] bitwise operations on bytes

[Eric Eisner]

> One other question:  if a has type bytes and b has type bytearray,
> what types would you propose that a & b and b & a should have?

For consistency they should probably do what they currently do with
concatenation: the type of the first expression is the type of the
result:

>>> b'a' + bytearray(b'b')
b'ab'
>>> bytearray(b'b') + b'a'
bytearray(b'ba')


-Eric