From 2e493239b14ee27646f30b818c987677ceb7551d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:34:13 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [3.14] gh-143834: Fix PyLong_AsNativeBytes docs for negative number padding (GH-143840) (GH-143854) (cherry picked from commit 421bd1770a87d141f66754ae29e407589e44ce83) Co-authored-by: Muneeb Ullah --- Doc/c-api/long.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst index eecb1b3b02cc..acc3f9668fdb 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/long.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/long.rst @@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ distinguished from a number. Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate. Otherwise, returns the number of bytes required to store the value. If this is equal to or less than *n_bytes*, the entire value was copied. - All *n_bytes* of the buffer are written: large buffers are padded with - zeroes. + All *n_bytes* of the buffer are written: remaining bytes filled by + copies of the sign bit. If the returned value is greater than *n_bytes*, the value was truncated: as many of the lowest bits of the value as could fit are written, -- 2.47.3