[ python-Bugs-1619659 ] htonl, ntohl don't handle negative longs

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Bugs item #1619659, was opened at 2006-12-20 11:42
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Submitted By: Adam Olsen (rhamphoryncus)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: htonl, ntohl don't handle negative longs

Initial Comment:
>>> htonl(-5)
-67108865
>>> htonl(-5L)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
OverflowError: can't convert negative value to unsigned long

It works fine in 2.1 and 2.2, but fails in 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.  htons, ntohs do not appear to have the bug, but I'm not 100% sure.

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