"site" module for MicroPython, with help() command
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 4:54 pm
Users of Unix port of MicroPython know that it doesn't contain builtin help() command. The reason for that is MicroPython philosophy, which says: "Anything which can be implemented in Python, should be implemented in Python" (more details: https://github.com/micropython/micropyt ... Guidelines).
Well, over this time, such an implementation didn't (widely) surfaced, so I finally went to add an of "site" module with implementation of that command. "site" is the module which is automatically loaded by CPython on start. Unfortunately, there's incompatibility in MicroPython - instead of "site" it loads "boot" instead. This incompatibility was reported long ago, but went unresolved: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/1741 . All in all, "site" needs to be imported manually, though I consider fixing that.
https://pypi.org/project/micropython-site/
Well, over this time, such an implementation didn't (widely) surfaced, so I finally went to add an of "site" module with implementation of that command. "site" is the module which is automatically loaded by CPython on start. Unfortunately, there's incompatibility in MicroPython - instead of "site" it loads "boot" instead. This incompatibility was reported long ago, but went unresolved: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/issues/1741 . All in all, "site" needs to be imported manually, though I consider fixing that.
https://pypi.org/project/micropython-site/
Code: Select all
$ micropython -m upip install micropython-site
$ micropython
>>> import site
Type "help()" for more information.
>>> help("foo")
object foo is of type str
center -- <function>
count -- <function>
encode -- <function>
endswith -- <function>
find -- <function>
format -- <function>
index -- <function>
isalpha -- <function>
isdigit -- <function>
islower -- <function>
...
