[Python-ideas] Bitwise operations on bytes class

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:

> Rather than adding new operations to bytes/bytearray, an alternative is a
> separate type ("bitview"?) which would take a writable buffer as argument
> and then provide the operations over that buffer.


+1

.. and it does not have to be part of stdlib.  The advantage of
implementing this outside of stdlib is that users of older versions of
Python will benefit immediately.
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