[issue5175] negative PyLong -> C unsigned integral, TypeError or OverflowError?

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Looks like this was changed in a checkin by Tim Peters in r21099;  before 
r21099, PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong raised OverflowError for negative 
numbers.  After the checkin, it raised TypeError.  I suspect the change 
was inadvertent.

Tim, any comments?

Lisandro, do you have any interest in contributing a patch for this?  The 
patch should change the exception type, fix the docs, add a test or two 
for the fixed behaviour of PyLong_AsUnsignedLongLong to 
Modules/_testcapimodule.c, and fix the test_struct test for the 'Q' format 
code.

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nosy: +tim_one

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