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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Consider restoring _PyLong_New() function as public","articleBody":"This was used to streamline conversion between ints and gmp-based integers.  E.g. in the gmpy2: https://github.com/aleaxit/gmpy/blob/e0944795008e6929c3d6cdfabb8344ce8a9e99d6/src/gmpy2_convert_gmp.c#L148-L181 or in the Sage: https://github.com/sagemath/sage/blob/2f1a76dc24af6c8ca9a804b10913c33a936b4fb8/src/sage/libs/gmp/pylong.pyx#L57-L69\r\n\r\nClearly, we want a better C-API e.g. for import/export ints, like mpz_import/export (probably, #102471 is the right metaissue here), but I don't see good reasons to hide this function now, without any alternatives.\r\n\r\nSee https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/106320 and https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/108604.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/skirpichev","@type":"Person","name":"skirpichev"},"datePublished":"2023-10-28T01:08:36.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":20},"url":"https://github.com/111415/cpython/issues/111415"}