Getting rid of bitwise operators in Python 3?

[Robert Kern]

Carl Banks wrote:
> Anyone with me here?  (I know the deadline for P3 PEPs has passed; this 
> is just talk.)

I'm not.  :-)

We use them in numpy. The bitwise operations on int and float arrays aren't all
that useful, but they are very useful for bool arrays. We can't use the
"and"/"or"/"not" keywords since they can't be overloaded, but they bitwise
operators fill the need fairly well. We've had
logical_and()/logical_or()/logical_not() functions since forever, too, and
they're a pain in the ass.

-- 
Robert Kern

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 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
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