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All dates and features are very subject to change!

Minimal Viable Product

Version 0.1 - Perhaps July / August 2024

• New immutable Bits class.
• Dtype class.
• Array class. Mutable, but with proxy to underlying Bits.
• Field, Format classes.
• float, int, uint, hex, oct, bin, bytes, bool dtypes.
• Remove unneeded exception types.
• pack and unpack methods for Bits.

Possible new features:

• Allow a new dtype to be specified in Array.unpack. Keep the Array's current dtype as the default.
• Array.zeros(dtype, n) method, to match Bits.zeros. Don't think we really need Array.ones.
• Array.pack(dtype, list) method. This is essentially just the __init__ method, but nice symmetry with Bits.
• FieldType.parse should take a **kwargs. Not useful until expressions are available.

Stretch targets

Version 0.1 / 0.2 - Later in 2024.

• Repeat class. Perhaps should be part of MVP, but still not sure of best implementation.
• Find class.
• Endianness modifiers for dtypes.

Later additions

• Exotic float types.
• Bit reading class / methods.
• Bit reverse modifier for dtypes?
• User defined types?

Not planned

• Exponential Golomb types.
• Explicit file support.