NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

[RobH]

On 27/09/2019 04:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:04:15 +0100, RobH <rob at despammer.com> declaimed the
> following:
> 
> 
>>>
>> As I said, I have downloaded the circuitpython chalcd files from the
>> link using pip3 install, but after downloading I can't find any Adafruit
>> folders on my pi zero. Doing a search for adafruit does not show anything.
>>
> 
> 	Did you also install the adafruit-blinka library?
> 
> 	On a Beaglebone Black (my R-Pi is in the depth of major apt-get
> update/upgrade cycle -- it feels like it's updating 50% of the OS given how
> long it's been running, and that's on a 3B+ quadcore compared to the slower
> single core BBB) I find blinka in
> 
> debian at beaglebone:~$ sudo find / -iname "*blinka*"
> /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/Adafruit_Blinka-2.5.0-py3.5.egg-info
> /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/adafruit_blinka
> debian at beaglebone:~$
> 
> 	Note: I ran the installs using "sudo pip3 ..." to make things act
> globally; if you ran without sudo the files might be in a hidden directory
> of the "pi" account.
> 
> 	Okay, an incomplete search of the R-Pi, stealing cycles from the
> upgrade processing)
> 
> pi at raspberrypi:~$ sudo find / -iname "*adafruit*"
> <SNIP>
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_PureIO
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/adafruit_blinka
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_PlatformDetect-1.3.4.dist-info
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_PureIO-0.2.3.dist-info
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/Adafruit_Blinka-2.5.1.dist-info
> /usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/adafruit_platformdetect
> 
> 
> 

Ok, the adafruit_character_lcd is in the same directory as yours, and so 
is Blinka and Purio. It seems to be a bit of a long path to type to get 
to the Adafruit_Charlcd directory, but is there a shortcut way of 
getting to the said directory.

Thanks