Conversion of longs to bytes and vice-versa.

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BPO	1023290
Nosy	@mwhudson, @tim-one, @loewis, @rhettinger, @josiahcarlson, @etrepum, @mdickinson, @pitrou, @avassalotti, @briancurtin
Dependencies	bpo-6687: Move the special-case for integer objects out of PyBytes_FromObject.
Files	structmodule_diff.txt: Diff to structmodule.c to add support. long_and_bytes_conversion.diff: Patch for Python 3.x long_and_bytes_conversion-2.diff long_and_bytes_conversion-3.diff

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GitHub fields: ```python assignee = 'https://github.com/mdickinson' closed_at = created_at = labels = ['interpreter-core', 'type-feature', 'library'] title = 'Conversion of longs to bytes and vice-versa.' updated_at = user = 'https://github.com/josiahcarlson' ``` bugs.python.org fields: ```python activity = actor = 'mark.dickinson' assignee = 'mark.dickinson' closed = True closed_date = closer = 'mark.dickinson' components = ['Interpreter Core', 'Library (Lib)'] creation = creator = 'josiahcarlson' dependencies = ['6687'] files = ['8245', '14695', '14739', '15333'] hgrepos = [] issue_num = 1023290 keywords = ['patch'] message_count = 50.0 messages = ['54238', '54239', '54240', '54241', '54242', '54243', '54244', '54245', '54246', '54247', '54248', '54249', '54250', '54251', '54252', '54253', '54254', '54255', '54256', '54257', '54258', '54259', '54260', '54261', '54262', '60065', '60135', '67955', '67983', '69285', '91487', '91602', '91603', '91604', '91616', '91669', '91672', '91673', '92069', '95258', '95730', '95734', '95735', '97469', '97588', '99314', '99321', '99329', '102157', '102241'] nosy_count = 11.0 nosy_names = ['mwh', 'tim.peters', 'loewis', 'rhettinger', 'josiahcarlson', 'bob.ippolito', 'mark.dickinson', 'pitrou', 'alexandre.vassalotti', 'ede', 'brian.curtin'] pr_nums = [] priority = 'high' resolution = 'accepted' stage = 'resolved' status = 'closed' superseder = None type = 'enhancement' url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1023290' versions = ['Python 3.2'] ```