General questions on data logging

[drsoptics]

I am working on setting up a simple datalogger. The following code works in the REPL:

##################################################################################
adc = pyb.ADC('X1')

f = open('/sd/log_1.csv', 'w')

t_start = pyb.millis()

for i in range(10):
pyb.delay(1000)
dt = pyb.millis() - t_start
str = '%i, %i\n' %(dt, adc.read())
f.write(str)

f.close()
####################################################################################

If I type this in line-by-line in the REPL, it does exactly what I want, and saves to a file on the SD card the value of an ADC read.

However if I save this to main.py on the SD card, I get blinking red and green lights, indicating an error. The source can be traced back to the pyb.delay statement at the beginning of the for loop. Why would REPL and a runtime program be giving different results?

[dhylands]

The way that I usually debug this is to put your program into a .py file (lets say program.py) and then from the REPL do:

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import program

. If you do that you should see the following error:

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>>> import program
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "program.py", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'pyb' is not defined

which tells me that you're missing an import pyb statement.
The reason it works on the REPL is because any modules imported from boot.py stay in effect when you get to the command line, and boot.py has these 2 lines:

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import machine
import pyb

Then once importing your program does everything you want, then I go ahead and add

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import program

to main.py or rename program.py to main.py.

[drsoptics]

Thanks. I now see I also had an auto-indent error that I was not aware of inside the loop. Finally some debugging capabilities, this will help a lot!