My student and I are writing a C extension that produces a large integer in binary which we'd like to convert to a python long. The number of bits can be a lot more than 32 or even 64. My student found the function _PyLong_FromByteArray in longobject.h which is exactly what we need, but the leading underscore makes me wary. Is it safe to use this function? Will it continue to exist in future versions of python? Or is there some other method we should use? We'd like something fairly efficient...
Thanks, Dan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
