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The strings will be released when there is nothing else referring to them — so just setting one variable to None may not be enough, if you have already passed that string around and something is still using it. Also, there is no need to manually call gc.collect, it will get called automatically soon...

Do you need it to be small in physical dimensions, or by any other criteria, like simplicity of the minimal working circuit, or unit price? The NRF51822 that is used to run MicroPython on Micro:bit is both small physically (a 32-pin QFN package, IIRC), small in terms of available flash and RAM, and ...

MicroPython interns all string constants, so once loaded, they never get released.

Why do you need it to be slower? What are you trying to do?
Usually you do this by using some delays or timers.

For anyone struggling with a similar problem, here is a missing piece of documentation: https://github.com/tve/micropython/comm ... dd114d4fae

You can allegedly do that in the newest version, by generating a .mpy module following: http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/develop/natmod.html — look at the example at https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/examples/natmod/features2 However, I haven't managed to get a non-trivial ...

I gave it another go. This time I installed the latest version of python3-elftools, which "fixed" the AttributeError. However, I still get the symbol not found error for "mp_obj_get_array", which is, come to think about it, very suspicious, because other symbols from the py/obj.c are found without p...

The fight continues. After changing the "if s.data_size == 0:" line in mpy_ld.py to "if getattr(s, 'data_size', 0) == 0:" I get a new error. This time it can't find the symbol mp_obj_get_array, which is used in my code. What to do? The function is defined in py/obj.c, so I tried adding it to SRC. Un...

I figured that one out, you can't use any _ROM_ functions, so the creation of classes is a bit more involved and has to be done in the init funcvtion. The framebuf module is a good example of that. However, now I'm getting: Traceback (most recent call last): File "../../../micropython/micropython/to...

Hello, I was very happy to see the native modules being added to release 1.12, as described at http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/develop/natmod.html so I decided to go and try to compile my "stage" game library this way, because a lot of people wanting to use it are unable to compile their own f...