How to assign to repeated field?

Question

I am using protocol buffers in python and I have a Person message

repeated uint64 id

but when I try to assign a value to it like:

person.id = [1, 32, 43432]

I get an error: Assigment not allowed for repeated field "id" in protocol message object How to assign a value to a repeated field ?

Answer 1

As per the documentation, you aren't able to directly assign to a repeated field. In this case, you can call extend to add all of the elements in the list to the field.

person.id.extend([1, 32, 43432])