Some identities for Python int.to_bytes and int.from_bytes

I read the documentation for int.to_bytes and int.from_bytes and thought that what was missing was a description of what they did in terms of other Python code, rather like what is done for several of the generators in the docs for the itertools module; (I was completing this RC task at the time).

I came up with the following code snippet that I would have found helpful and that I hope helps you.

>>> n = 2491969579123783355964723219455906992268673266682165637887
>>> length = 25
>>> n2bytesbig    = n.to_bytes(length, 'big')
>>> n2byteslittle = n.to_bytes(length, 'little')
>>> assert n2bytesbig    == bytes( (n >> i*8) & 0xff for i in reversed(range(length)))
>>> assert n2byteslittle == bytes( (n >> i*8) & 0xff for i in range(length))
>>> assert n == sum( n2bytesbig[::-1][i] << i*8 for i in range(length) )
>>> assert n == sum( n2byteslittle[i]    << i*8 for i in range(length) )
>>> assert n == int.from_bytes(n2bytesbig,    byteorder='big')
>>> assert n == int.from_bytes(n2byteslittle, byteorder='little')
>>>