There is an important distinction between PyASN1 schema and value objects.
        The PyASN1 schema objects can only participate in ASN.1 schema-related
        operations (e.g. defining or testing the structure of the data). Most
        obvious uses of ASN.1 schema is to guide serialisation codecs whilst
        encoding/decoding serialised ASN.1 contents.

        The PyASN1 value objects can **additionally** participate in many operations
        involving regular Python objects (e.g. arithmetic, comprehension etc).
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