[issue13535] Improved two's complement arithmetic support: to_signed() and to_unsigned()

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Tue Dec 6 20:39:21 CET 2011


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> On the feature request itself, I have to say that I'm unconvinced.
> Doing x % (2**32) seems good enough to me, in situations where you
> don't need the bounds checking.

Ah, I didn't know that modulo worked for that. Nice trick.

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