Documented the 2's-comp business for the new long opcodes.

bdbe7418 · Tim Peters · 5eed3402 · bdbe7418
Commit bdbe7418 authored Jan 27, 2003 by Tim Peters
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--- a/Lib/pickletools.py
+++ b/Lib/pickletools.py
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ long1 = ArgumentDescriptor(
    doc="""A binary long, little-endian, using 1-byte size.
    This first reads one byte as an unsigned size, then reads that
-    many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian long.
+    many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
    """)
 def read_long2(f):
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ long2 = ArgumentDescriptor(
    doc="""A binary long, little-endian, using 2-byte size.
    This first reads two byte as an unsigned size, then reads that
-    many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian long.
+    many bytes and interprets them as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
    """)
 def read_long4(f):
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ long4 = ArgumentDescriptor(
    This first reads four bytes as a signed size (but requires the
    size to be >= 0), then reads that many bytes and interprets them
-    as a little-endian long.
+    as a little-endian 2's-complement long.
    """)