Question

How to remove trailing nulls (0) from byte array in Python

Answer 1

def remove_trailing_nulls(byte_array):
    while byte_array and byte_array[-1] == 0:
        byte_array.pop()
        
    return byte_array


byte_array = bytearray([1, 2, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0])
trimmedArray = remove_trailing_nulls(byte_array)

print(trimmedArray)  
print(trimmedArray[0])  



'''
run:

bytearray(b'\x01\x02\x03')
1

'''

 

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