raw bytes elements

[sprout42]

Define an element type which allows supplying and returning bytearray values, rather than forcing bytes-like data to be fit into integer/numerical values.

[sprout42]

hmm.... what if we take a cue from how we determine bytes vs. elements in the length field, and if a numeric element's name is specified as b'name' then it will unpack as bytes? I think numeric elements already support bytes as one of the valid input data formats.

[sprout42]

If we have a simple method to mark that the unpacked data should be bytes vs. a number then all we need to do is skip this line in the unpack function:

StarStruct/starstruct/elementnum.py

Line 126 in 09e12b6

val = int.from_bytes(b''.join(data), # pylint: disable=no-member

[tjdevries]

Line 123 should probably be a bytearray rather than a list, but yeah, I think that would work.

[sprout42]

good point, I hadn't considered having it a bytearray.