From 667d55e020c64ae493342ed940cb0b002965f440 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Muneeb Ullah Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:22:01 +0500 Subject: [PATCH] gh-143834: Fix PyLong_AsNativeBytes docs for negative number padding (GH-143840) (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 eecb1b3b02cc0d..acc3f9668fdbaf 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,