Maximum and minimum value of C types integers from Python

I'm looking for a way to get (using Python) the maximum and minimum values of C types integers (ie uint8, int8, uint16, int16, uint32, int32, uint64, int64...) from Python.

I was expecting to find this in ctypes module

In [1]: import ctypesIn [2]: ctypes.c_uint8(256)Out[2]: c_ubyte(0)In [3]: ctypes.c_uint8(-1)Out[3]: c_ubyte(255)

but I couldn't find it.

Julia have great feature for this:

julia> typemax(UInt8)0xffjulia> typemin(UInt8)0x00julia> typemin(Int8)-128julia> typemax(Int8)127

I'm pretty sure Python have something quite similar.

Ideally I'm even looking for a way to ensure that a given Python integer (which is said to be unbounded) can be converted safely in a C type integer of a given size.When number is not in expected interval, it should raise an exception.

Currently overflow doesn't raise exception:

In [4]: ctypes.c_uint8(256)Out[4]: c_ubyte(0)

I saw this SO post Maximum and Minimum values for ints but it's a bit different as author is looking for min/max value of a Python integer... not a C integer (from Python)

I also noticed Detecting C types limits ("limits.h") in python? but, even if it's quite related, it doesn't really answer my question.