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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2023-01-24 05:30:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-01-24 05:30:29 (GMT) |
| commit | a259efc63fb784634b66b5f8c8342d60672aaa23 (patch) | |
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[docs] Mention how to get/set a bigint PyLong via the C API (GH-101270)
We don't need direct C APIs to get at a bigint representation of PyLong but we
do want the few people who need to understand how.
Additional Author: CAM-Gerlach
(cherry picked from commit e244401ce508ad391295beb636e499fcc6797a2a)
Co-authored-by: Gregory P. Smith <greg@krypto.org>
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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst index bd3d731..b3e455d 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/long.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/long.rst @@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ distinguished from a number. Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate. underscores after a base specifier and between digits are ignored. If there are no digits, :exc:`ValueError` will be raised. + .. seealso:: Python methods :meth:`int.to_bytes` and :meth:`int.from_bytes` + to convert a :c:type:`PyLongObject` to/from an array of bytes in base + ``256``. You can call those from C using :c:func:`PyObject_CallMethod`. + .. c:function:: PyObject* PyLong_FromUnicodeObject(PyObject *u, int base) |