> Devin, I asked you for a strong rationale to add the feature. I don't see such rationale, so this issue will be closed again.
I guess we have different definitions of "strong rationale". Clearer criteria would help.
>> It may be better to make _PyLong_FromByteArray() and _PyLong_AsByteArray() public.
> That makes sense. I suggest to open a new issue for that.
This request was part of the original bug report, so why open a new issue?
> PyLong_FromIntMax_t(myinteger) would be great. Or maybe even better would be PyLong_FromBytes(&myinteger, sizeof(myinteger)) ?