ByteArray

Fixed size arrays provide a concrete class that accepts an instance of a byteclass and a qty during instantiation.

ByteArray has a minimum qty of two.

fa1 = ByteArray(2) # Item type for ByteArrays are UInt8
fa2 = ByteArray(2, Int16)
fa3 = ByteArray(4, Int16, byte_order=b"!")

The ByteArray byte_order will override the item byte_order regardless if the item byte_order is specified.

ByteArray can only contain byteclass primitives, they do not accept collections as their item.

Array items can be accessed by indexing an array. The raw array bytes can be interacted with via the data attribute.

fa = ByteArray(10, Int8)
print(fa)
print(fa.data)
print(fa[0])
print(fa[0].data)

Assignment while indexing a ByteArray will assign the provided value the the data attribute of the specified item index.