Use int.from_bytes() instead of struct for various ints (u1, u2, u4, etc.)

[armijnhemel]

I am filing this issue as something to possibly consider for the future.

Currently struct is used for converting bytes to ints (and a few other values like floats, but this issue is only about ints):

https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_python_runtime/blob/master/kaitaistruct.py#L170

For ints Python 3 has a different mechanism for converting from byte strings to ints namely from_bytes():

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#int.from_bytes

What is very convenient is that it allows arbitrary length byte strings, so it becomes absolutely trivial to implement something like u3 or u5 or u11.

[armijnhemel]

Of course, if you are want to keep Python 2 support, then you would need to keep the current solution. I don't know if other languages support something like this, but if so, then dropping Python 2 support would be a small price to pay.