hex() and oct() documentation is incorrect

[ncoghlan]

BPO	1035279
Nosy	@rhettinger, @ncoghlan

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title = 'hex() and oct() documentation is incorrect'
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[ncoghlan]

The documentation for hex() and oct() in the library
reference currently still says they return unsigned
literals only.

With the progress of int/long unification, they no
longer do this. hex(-1) now returns "-0x1". This is
required so that "eval(hex(-1)) == -1" continues to be
true.

[rhettinger]

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\versionchanged{Formerly only returned an unsigned
literal.]{2.4}