[docs] [issue33033] Clarify that the signed number convertors to PyArg_ParseTuple... *do* overflow checking

[Antony Lee]

New submission from Antony Lee <anntzer.lee at gmail.com>:

At https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/arg.html#numbers, it is explicitly documented that the unsigned number convertors do not perform overflow checking.  Implicitly, this suggests that the signed convertors *do* perform overflow checking, which they indeed do; but it would be nice to document this behavior explicitly (as overflow checking is not always expected of C-level functions).

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 313471
nosy: Antony.Lee, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Clarify that the signed number convertors to PyArg_ParseTuple... *do* overflow checking
versions: Python 3.6

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