Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int` arguments.


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  r76071 | antoine.pitrou | 2009-11-02 21:47:33 +0100 (lun., 02 nov. 2009) | 4 lines

  Add acceptance of long ints to test_memoryio.py
  (in preparation for fix of #7249 in 2.6)
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 Library
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+- Issue #7249: Methods of io.BytesIO now allow `long` as well as `int`
+  arguments.
+
 - Issue #6665: Fix fnmatch to properly match filenames with newlines in them.
 
 - Issue #1008086: Fixed socket.inet_aton() to always return 4 bytes even on