Guido van Rossum added the comment:

Since it's basically a magic cookie, not a meaningful numeric value, I'd
propose sticking with backwards compatibility and fixing the 64-bit
version to return a signed version.

return x - ((x & 0x80000000) <<1)

anyone?

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