code: def decode_chain_list(in_bytes):
      
      bstrings = numpy.frombuffer(in_bytes, numpy.dtype('S' + str(mmtf.utils.constants.CHAIN_LEN)))
      return [s.decode("ascii").strip(mmtf.utils.constants.NULL_BYTE) for s in bstrings]
docs: Convert a list of bytes to a list of strings. Each string is of length mmtf.CHAIN_LEN
  
      :param in_bytes: the input bytes
      :return the decoded list of strings