[Microbit-Python] importing modules using uflash

[Radomir Dopieralski]

As Nicholas already mentioned, this module works also as a standalone
command line tool.

On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:03:57 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 14.09.2016 21:55, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Great, thanks.
> 
> I think this would make an excellent addition to the uflash
> tool - for those of us who prefer emacs over mu ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> > 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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