[issue4591] 32-bits unsigned user/group identifier

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> > (perhaps we need as PyNumber_AsLongIndex() to do the direct conversion
> > to a C long, it would make things easier in many cases)
> 
> +1, but drop the 'Index' part of the name, to match the existing
> PyNumber_AsSsize_t.

There's already PyNumber_Long() (which doesn't use __index__), hence the
possible confusion.
Note there is also PyIndex_Check(), so we could call it
PyIndex_AsLong().

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