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Awkward FCfield API
Brief description
How am I meant to access the to-DS field in a Dot11.FCfield in a Pythonic way? I can access for example the retry field by using fcfield.retry, but of course, fcfield.to-DS is not valid syntax. getattr(fcfield, 'to-DS') and the same with setattr works, but is very ugly. Is there a better way to read/set this bit field?
Scapy version
2.6.1
Python version
3.13.1
Operating system
Linux 6.12.6
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That's a bit crappy, you are right. I believe that you can do
if 'to-DS' in pkt.FCfield
but we probably should look into renaming this.
Good that this will be renamed :) This is not the only 'impossible' field name in the codebase, so maybe it makes sense to check the names at runtime with a regex?
Another issue I have is setting the value, but I'm using setattr in the meantime.