Backport additional methods on int

[str4d]

Per the int docs, int.to_bytes() and int.from_bytes() were added in Python 3.2; they are not present in newint. I have been unable to find a simple alternative for Python 2 that will work with newint. Is backporting possible? If not, what should I be using instead?

[edschofield]

@str4d: Thanks for reporting this.

I have done an initial implementation (minus support for the keyword argument signed=True). Could you please check out the v0.12.x maint branch and let me know how well it works for you?

[str4d]

It works exactly as expected. The only thing I needed to do was to wrap all the existing variables in int() before calling to_bytes() to ensure they were newints in Python 2.x. I assume that in Python 3.x this is a nullop?

[edschofield]

That's good news. :)

Yes, on Python 3 this is a nullop:

>>> from future.builtins import int
>>> k1 = 5
>>> k2 = int(k1)
>>> k2 is k1
True

[edschofield]

This is now merged into v0.13.