On 5/18/18 12:32 PM, Chris Barker via Python-ideas wrote: > actually, bytes are, well, bytes ;-) -- that is, 8 bits. But the point > is that "bitwise" operations make all the sense in the world for > bytes, but not for unicode text -- did anyone have a use case for > bitwise operation on unicode strings? I can't imagine one, even if you > could agree on a definition... > The one case I could think of is a very crude form of encryption. Probably most makes sense if you assume the string is really just ASCII. Not sure if that is a good enough case to be worth adding it, as often you special case some characters (like control characters) to avoid messing things up too much for display.
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