Transition to 2.8

Overall

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

{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

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

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

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

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

LazyStruct LazyRange LazySequence were added

OnDemand returns a parameterless lambda that returns the parsed object

OnDemandPointer was dropped

LazyBound remains

Padding and Alignment

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

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

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

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

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

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).