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:<

Answer 1

If you don't want to extend but overwrite it completely, you can do:

person.id[:] = [1, 32, 43432]

This approach will also work to clear the field entirely:

del person.id[:]