[docs] Mention how to get/set a bigint PyLong via the C API (#101270)

gpshead · web-flow · commit e244401ce508 · 2023-01-23T21:20:53.000-08:00
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
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/long.rst b/Doc/c-api/long.rst
@@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ distinguished from a number.  Use :c:func:`PyErr_Occurred` to disambiguate.
    ignored.  If there are no digits or *str* is not NULL-terminated following the
    digits and trailing whitespace, :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)
 
