[Microbit-Python] importing modules using uflash

[Radomir Dopieralski]

It just uses normal python commands, such as open(), file.read(),
file.write(), os.listdir() and so on, but executes them over the REPL
console. You can see exactly what it does here:
https://github.com/ntoll/mu/blob/master/mu/contrib/microfs.py

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 21:15:22 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 11.09.2016 14:00, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> > 
> > Not quite.
> > 
> > It doesn't matter how you upload your main script -- you can use
> > uFlash or Mu or the online editor, or even prepare the hex file
> > yourself by hand. The thing is, that the hex file can contain only
> > one python file in it.
> > 
> > However, there is also internal filesystem on the micro:bit, where
> > you can put additional files to be imported by your main script.
> > The most convenient way to access that filesystem and upload your
> > files is by using the latest version of the Mu editor. Of course,
> > you could as well just write a program that creates the file and
> > writes its contents, but that is a little roundabout way of doing
> > it.
> > 
> > I hope this helps.
> 
> Is the functionality needed for uploading modules to the
> MB documented somewhere ? (A pointer to the right place
> in the Mu editor code would already help :-))
> 
> Background: I've been looking for something like a few months
> ago and back then, there was no filesystem module import for
> the MB.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:47:20 +0100
> > "hot.toast via Microbit" <microbit at python.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> So as i understand it,
> >>
> >> 1. uFlash is limited to python scripts that contain all the local 
> >> function and class definitions. The only imports that are allowed
> >> are those from the microbit version of micropython.
> >>
> >> 2. If I want to import  "mymodule.py" from a file on my local hard 
> >> drive, I will have to use the latest version of the mu editor...
> >>
> >> On 11/09/16 12:19, David Whale wrote:
> >>> Make sure you use the most up to date version of Mu though to do
> >>> this, as it was a feature that was added reasonably recently. The
> >>> version of Mu in the Raspberry Pi repo's is still out of date at
> >>> the moment, and might not have this feature included yet.
> > 
> > 
> 



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