[Python-ideas] Bitwise operations on bytes class

[Nick Coghlan]

On 17 June 2014 16:03, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Because the two APIs are currently in sync outside mutating operations, and
>> there isn't a compelling reason to break that symmetry, even if this
>> proposal was put forward as a PEP and ultimately accepted.
>
> Ah! That would be why. Sorry for the noise!

Clarifying non-obvious design principles isn't noise on python-ideas,
it's one of the reasons the list exists :)

Cheers,
Nick.