gh-160781: Fix StringIO.truncate() rejecting sizes above 2**31 - 1 on Windows

Lib/test/test_io/test_memoryio.py

@@ -1150,6 +1150,12 @@ def __index__(self):
         with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
             stream.truncate(Size())
 
+        # Sizes above 2**31 - 1 must work where C long is 32-bit.
+        if sys.maxsize > 2**31:
+            stream = self.ioclass("abc")
+            self.assertEqual(stream.truncate(2**31), 2**31)
+            self.assertEqual(stream.getvalue(), "abc")
+
     # XXX: For the Python version of io.StringIO, this is highly
     # dependent on the encoding used for the underlying buffer.
     def test_widechar(self):

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-10-27-15-27-32.gh-issue-160781.kARuHu.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Fix :class:`io.StringIO` implementation of :meth:`io.IOBase.truncate`
+rejecting sizes larger than ``2**31 - 1`` on Windows.

Modules/_io/stringio.c

@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ _io_StringIO_truncate_impl(stringio *self, PyObject *pos)
         size = self->pos;
     }
     else {
-        size = PyLong_AsLong(pos);
+        size = PyNumber_AsSsize_t(pos, PyExc_OverflowError);
         if (size == -1 && PyErr_Occurred()) {
             return NULL;
         }