[Python-ideas] Bitwise operations on bytes class

[Guido van Rossum]

As additional input to thsi discussion I would like to remind you all that
it's not a good idea to have every operator apply to every data type, as
this increases the chances that bugs percolate up to a point where it's
hard to figure out where an unexpected value was generated. IOW, just
because there's no current meaning for e.g. b^b, that doesn't necessarily
make it a good idea to add one. (There are other arguments from language
usability against adding new operations indiscriminately, but this in
particular jumped out at me.)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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