enable more padding options in state valuations

Author: randriu

umbi/binary/composites.py

@@ -160,7 +160,6 @@ def add_padding(self, num_bits: int):
         """Add padding bits to the buffer."""
         assert num_bits > 0
         self.append_to_buffer(BitArray(uint=0, length=num_bits))
-        self.assert_buffer_empty()
 
     def pack_field(self, field: Field, value: object):
         """Pack a single field into the buffer or the bytestring."""
@@ -227,7 +226,6 @@ def extract_from_buffer(self, num_bits: int):
 
     def skip_padding(self, num_bits: int):
         self.extract_from_buffer(num_bits)
-        self.assert_buffer_empty()
 
     def unpack_field(self, field: Field) -> object:
         """Unpack a single field from the buffer or the bytestring."""

umbi/binary/strings.py

@@ -31,9 +31,7 @@ def string_unpack(bytestring: bytes) -> tuple[str, bytes]:
     """
     prefix_size = 2  # size of uint16
     prefix, bytestring = split_bytes(bytestring, prefix_size)
-    print("prefix =", prefix)
     length = bytes_to_uint(prefix)
-    print("length =", length)
     string_bytes, remainder = split_bytes(bytestring, length)
     string = bytes_to_string(string_bytes)
     return string, remainder