INADA Naoki added the comment: @mmarkk Do you read full docstring? It's documented very clearly. --- int.to_bytes(length, byteorder, *, signed=False) -> bytes Return an array of bytes representing an integer. The integer is represented using length bytes. An OverflowError is raised if the integer is not representable with the given number of bytes. The byteorder argument determines the byte order used to represent the integer. If byteorder is 'big', the most significant byte is at the beginning of the byte array. If byteorder is 'little', the most significant byte is at the end of the byte array. To request the native byte order of the host system, use `sys.byteorder' as the byte order value. The signed keyword-only argument determines whether two's complement is used to represent the integer. If signed is False and a negative integer is given, an OverflowError is raised. --- ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27622> _______________________________________