python(feat): Plumb bytes through sift-py and sift_client.

[ian-sift]

Verification:

Setup

Run the updated examples/ingestion_with_python_config/main.py to create a run w/ bytes type data

Results

    run = sift.runs.get(run_id="d24f66d7-723f-4fa3-b546-255df298af8c")
    nostromo = run.assets[0]
    channels = nostromo.channels(run_id=run.id_)
    for channel in channels:
        if channel.name == "raw_bin":
            print(channel.description)
            data = channel.data(run_id=run.id_)
            channel_name, df = next(iter(data.items()))
            for i, (time, value) in enumerate(df.iterrows()):
                print(i, time, value[channel_name].decode("utf-8"))
                if i > 10:
                    break

Yielded:

Example of binary encoded data (binary string encoding of time in seconds)
0 2025-08-29 22:11:15.846012+00:00 1756505475.846039
1 2025-08-29 22:11:16.512679+00:00 1756505476.512702
2 2025-08-29 22:11:17.179542+00:00 1756505477.1795468
3 2025-08-29 22:11:17.846210+00:00 1756505477.846234
4 2025-08-29 22:11:18.512880+00:00 1756505478.512905
5 2025-08-29 22:11:19.179542+00:00 1756505479.179546
6 2025-08-29 22:11:19.846212+00:00 1756505479.8462431
7 2025-08-29 22:11:20.512880+00:00 1756505480.512904
8 2025-08-29 22:11:21.179543+00:00 1756505481.1795478
9 2025-08-29 22:11:21.846213+00:00 1756505481.846234
10 2025-08-29 22:11:22.512880+00:00 1756505482.5129018
11 2025-08-29 22:11:23.179544+00:00 1756505483.1795478

Rerun for yaml ingestion:

    yaml_run = sift.runs.get(run_id="c7839e77-1267-49d6-a05f-b58951bc5031")
    nostromo = yaml_run.assets[0]
    channels = nostromo.channels(run_id=yaml_run.id_)
    for channel in channels:
        if channel.name == "raw_bin":
            print(channel.name)
            print(channel.description)
            data = channel.data(run_id=yaml_run.id_)
            channel_name, df = next(iter(data.items()))
            print(channel_name)
            for i, (time, value) in enumerate(df.iterrows()):
                print(i, time, value[channel_name].decode("utf-8"))
                if i > 10:
                    break
               
=>
               
Example of binary encoded data (binary string encoding of time in seconds)
raw_bin
0 2025-08-29 23:37:10.927584+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:10.927584+00:00
1 2025-08-29 23:37:11.594251+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:11.594251+00:00
2 2025-08-29 23:37:12.261125+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:12.261125+00:00
3 2025-08-29 23:37:12.927793+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:12.927793+00:00
4 2025-08-29 23:37:13.594460+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:13.594460+00:00
5 2025-08-29 23:37:14.261125+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:14.261125+00:00
6 2025-08-29 23:37:14.927795+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:14.927795+00:00
7 2025-08-29 23:37:15.594463+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:15.594463+00:00
8 2025-08-29 23:37:16.261137+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:16.261137+00:00
9 2025-08-29 23:37:16.927806+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:16.927806+00:00
10 2025-08-29 23:37:17.594476+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:17.594476+00:00
11 2025-08-29 23:37:18.261138+00:00 2025-08-29 23:37:18.261138+00:00

[alexluck-sift]

Make sure to update the yaml parsing to support bytes type as well: https://github.com/sift-stack/sift/blob/main/python/lib/sift_py/yaml/channel.py#L193