https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2516dd0d06754e5ddef080cc02386688c2fc1ba6 commit: 2516dd0d06754e5ddef080cc02386688c2fc1ba6 branch: 3.13 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: encukou <[email protected]> date: 2026-01-15T09:34:21+01:00 summary:
[3.13] gh-143834: Fix PyLong_AsNativeBytes docs for negative number padding (GH-143840) (GH-143855) (cherry picked from commit 421bd1770a87d141f66754ae29e407589e44ce83) Co-authored-by: Muneeb Ullah <[email protected]> files: M Doc/c-api/long.rst diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst index 2d70f46f3e4897..1dbd6b37c6a2b2 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/long.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/long.rst @@ -403,8 +403,8 @@ 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, _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
