Could NMEAMessage contain fields for each field in raw?

[Allan-S-Menefee]

Having easy access to the results of NMEAMessage(foo).raw.decode().split(',') would make things neater for certain tasks, in case it's necessary to manually process those fields.

For example:
!AIVDM,1,1,,A,15Mj23P000G?q7fK>g:o7@1:0L3S,0*1B
would have fields:
{'message_fragments': 1, 'fragment_number': 1, 'message_id': None, 'channel': 'A', 'payload': '15Mj23P000G?q7fK>g:o7@1:0L3S', 'fill_bits':0, 'checksum': '*1B'}

[Allan-S-Menefee]

It already does, it's just not in the dict. They're stored as attributes on the NMEAMessage.