# Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889>\
**Category:** Core Development\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889 "2022-09-08T22:40:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/int-str-conversions-broken-in-latest-python-bugfix-releases/18889/19 "2022-09-09T18:24:50Z")

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> [@quantzur](#):
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> Currently it took me ~15 paragraphs of reading from the release notes to the documentation, to subtopics in the documentation, to

yuck, agreed! Tracking in [Reduce user friction: Improve docs on how to work around our integer to/from decimal str length limit · Issue #96722 · python/cpython · GitHub](https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/96722)

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