Feb-23-2017, 11:29 AM
Python is considered to be "high level language with batteries included" and direct manipulations with binary data are often left to specialized libraries, thats perhaps reason why some introductory texts just mention bytes and decode/encode and go away.
In that sense bitwise operations are similar, they are usually mentioned, but rarely used.
In that sense bitwise operations are similar, they are usually mentioned, but rarely used.