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Transition to 2.8
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Overall
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All fields and complex constructs are now nameless, you need to use / operator to name them. Look at Struct Sequence Range for how to use + >> [] operators to construct larger instances.



Integers and floats
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{U,S}{L,B,N}Int{8,16,24,32,64} was made Int{8,16,24,32,64}{u,s}{l,b,n}

Byte, Short, Int, Long were made aliases to Int{8,16,32,64}ub

{B,L,N}Float{32,64} was made Float{32,64}{b,l,n}

Single, Double were made aliases to Float{32,64}b

VarInt was added

Bit, Nibble, Octet remain

All above were made singletons



Fields
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Field was made Bytes (operates on b-strings)

BytesInteger was added (operates on integers)

BitField was made BitsInteger (operates on integers)

GreedyBytes was added

Flag was made a singleton

Enum takes the `default` keyword argument (no underscores)

Enum was fixed, the context value is a string label (not integer).

FlagsEnum remains



Strings
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String remains

PascalString argument `length_field=UBInt8` was made `lengthfield` and explicit

CString dropped `char_field`

GreedyString dropped `char_field`

All above use optional `encoding` argument or use global encoding (see ``setglobalstringencoding()``)



Structures and Sequences
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Struct uses syntax like ``Struct("num"/Int32ub, "text"/CString())`` and ``"num"/Int32ub + "text"/CString()``

Sequence uses syntax like ``Byte >> Int16ul`` and ``Sequence(Byte, Int16ul)``

On Python 3.6 you can also use syntax like ``Struct(num=Int32ub, text=CString())`` and ``Sequence(num=Int32ub, text=CString())``


Ranges and Arrays
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Array uses syntax like ``Byte[10]`` and ``Array(10, Byte)``

Range uses syntax like ``Byte[5:]`` and ``Byte[:5]`` and ``Range(min=5, max=2**64, Byte)``

GreedyRange uses syntax like ``Byte[:]`` and ``GreedyRange(Byte)``

PrefixedArray takes explicit `lengthfield` before subcon

OpenRange and GreedyRange were dropped

OptionalGreedyRange was renamed to GreedyRange

RepeatUntil takes 3-argument (last element, list, context) lambda



Lazy collections
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LazyStruct LazyRange LazySequence were added

OnDemand returns a parameterless lambda that returns the parsed object

OnDemandPointer was dropped

LazyBound remains



Padding and Alignment
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Aligned takes explicit `modulus` before the subcon

Padded was added, also takes explicit `modulus` before the subcon

Padding remains

Padding and Padded dropped `strict` parameter



Optional
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If dropped `elsevalue` and always returns None

IfThenElse parameters renamed to `thensubcon` and `elsesubcon`

Switch remains

Optional remains

Union takes explicit `parsefrom` so parsing seeks stream by selected subcon size, or does not seek by default

Select remains



Miscellaneous and others
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Value was made Computed

Embed was made Embedded

Alias was removed

Magic was made Const

Const has reordered parameters, like ``Const(b"\\x00")`` and ``Const(0, Int8ub)``.

Pass remains

Terminator was renamed Terminated

OneOf and NoneOf remain

Filter added

LengthValueAdapter was made Prefixed, and gained `includelength` option

Hex added

HexDumpAdapter was made HexDump

HexDump builds from hexdumped data, not from raw bytes

SlicingAdapter and IndexingAdapter were made Slicing and Indexing

ExprAdapter ExprSymmetricAdapter ExprValidator were added or remain

SeqOfOne was replaced by FocusedSeq

Numpy added

NamedTuple added

Check added

Error added

Default added

Rebuild added

StopIf added



Stream manipulation
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Bitwise was reimplemented using Restreamed

Bytewise was added

Restreamed and Rebuffered were redesigned

Anchor was made Tell and a singleton

Seek was added

Pointer remains, size cannot be computed

Peek dropped `perform_build` parameter, never builds



Tunneling
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RawCopy was added, returns both parsed object and raw bytes consumed

Prefixed was added, allows to put greedy fields inside structs and sequences

ByteSwapped and BitsSwapped were added

Checksum was added

Compressed was added


Exceptions
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FocusedError OverwriteError were removed

FieldError was replaced with StreamError (raised when stream returns less than requested amount) and FormatFieldError (raised by FormatField class, for example if building Float from non-float value and struct.pack complaining).