From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:30:29 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [docs] Mention how to get/set a bigint PyLong via the C API (GH-101270) X-Git-Tag: v3.10.10~23 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a259efc63fb784634b66b5f8c8342d60672aaa23;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [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 --- diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst index bd3d731d8464..b3e455d0a89c 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)