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

For repeated composite types this is what worked for me.

del person.things[:]
person.things.extend([thing1, thing2, ..])

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