Are padding field names necessary?

Question

sprout42 opened this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

Is it necessary to have a field name for padding elements?

Answer 1 · 2016-10-17T19:27:43.000Z

One might want to assert

assert len(MyMessage.pad_2) == 2

Answer 2 · 2016-10-17T19:28:00.000Z

Not sure why exactly, but I could see it happening.

Answer 3 · 2016-10-18T12:55:09.000Z

The pad fields just return None when the element is "unpacked" currently. All the unpack function does is consume bytes.