    def _unpad(self, a: bitarray) -> bitarray:
        """
        remove the bitpadding.

        There will be a set of 0s preceded by a 1 at the end of the bitarray, we remove that
        """
        # count the 0 padding at the end until we find the first 1
        # we want to remove the one too
        remove_cnt = util.rindex(a, 1)
        return a[:remove_cnt]
remove the bitpadding.

There will be a set of 0s preceded by a 1 at the end of the bitarray, we remove that
fairseq/data/huffman/huffman_coder.py