From d7894ba15806f5053b6a9aba1a5a50630ee52215 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Michael W. Hudson" <mwh@python.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:38:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] backport tim_one's checkin of     revision 1.116 of
 test_descr.py

_PyLong_Copy():  was creating a copy of the absolute value, but should
copy the sign too.  Added a test to test_descr to ensure that it does.

Bugfix candidate.
---
 Lib/test/test_descr.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_descr.py b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
index e667efb18af7..de9bba163660 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_descr.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_descr.py
@@ -1751,6 +1751,7 @@ def inherits():
     # Check that negative clones don't segfault
     a = longclone(-1)
     vereq(a.__dict__, {})
+    vereq(long(a), -1)  # verify PyNumber_Long() copies the sign bit
 
     class precfloat(float):
         __slots__ = ['prec']
-- 
2.47.3