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Expand Up @@ -49,17 +49,7 @@ msgpack provides `dumps` and `loads` as an alias for compatibility with
[1, 2, 3]
```

`unpack` unpacks msgpack's array to Python's list, but can also unpack to tuple:

```pycon
>>> msgpack.unpackb(b'\x93\x01\x02\x03', use_list=False)
(1, 2, 3)
```

You should always specify the `use_list` keyword argument for backward compatibility.
See performance issues relating to `use_list option`_ below.

Read the docstring for other options.
Read the docstring for options.


### Streaming unpacking
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`object_pairs_hook` callback may instead be used to receive a list of
key-value pairs.

NOTE: msgpack can encode datetime with tzinfo into standard ext type for now.
See `datetime` option in `Packer` docstring.


### Extended types

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