bigint <-> python long

[Paul D. Anderson]

On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 18:13:40 UTC, Ellery Newcomer 
wrote:
> Hey.
>
> Investigating the possibility of providing this conversion in 
> pyd.
>
> Python provides an api for accessing the underlying bytes.
>
> std.bigint seemingly doesn't. Am I missing anything?

No, I don't believe so. AFAIK there is no public access to the 
underlying array, but I think it is a good idea.

I suspect the reason for not disclosing the details is to 
disallow anyone putting the data into an invalid state. But 
read-only access would be safe.