.. _PortingGuide:

Porting guide
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This section gives an overview of the breaking changes between major comet versions and the changes that need to be implemented on a projects side.

4.3 ➞ 5.0
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**Breaking changes:**
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	| **Change**: All builtin constants have been moved from :py:mod:`comet` to :py:mod:`comet.constants`
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	| **Solution:** Replace all occurences of access to builtin constants in your scripts.
	| This can be done by replacing *comet.k* with *comet.constants.k*.
	| Take care not to accidently replace your custom global variables which may be prefixed with *k* aswell.

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	| **Change**: CGroup.getGroup has been removed.
	| 
	| **Solution:** The function was a duplicate of :py:meth:`CPageItem.getGroup`. Use this function instead.
	
**Deprecated functions:**
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	| **Change**: *prefs.setPanelEnabled* has been deprecated
	| **Solution:** Use :py:func:`.panel.setEnabled`