mport io >>> read_string4(io.BytesIO(b"\x00\x00\x00\x00abc")) '' >>> read_string4(io.BytesIO(b"\x03\x00\x00\x00abcdef")) 'abc' >>> read_string4(io.BytesIO(b"\x00\x00\x00\x03abcdef")) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: expected 50331648 bytes in a string4, but only 6 remain r