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Hello everyone,

I am pretty new to programming with the micropython board and couldn't find any information on how to do this.

I'm currently working on interfacing with a 16x2 LCD screen and found some code I wanted to test at
https://github.com/wjdp/micropython-lcd
and I don't know how to add the lcd.py files to microcontroller.

I'm working on windows 8.1 and when I plug in the board, I insert the lcd.py file in the removable drive that pops up.
Is that the correct place to add the file? If it isn't where am I supposed to put the file, and how would I do that?

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Any files that you place in the removable drive will appear to be at the root of the filesystem as far as the pyboard is concerned.

Under linux, I normally do the following procedure:

1 - Copy the file to the removable drive
2 - Wait about 5 seconds for the drive data to be flushed
3 - On the python REPL, I then do Control-D. Without this, the pyboard won't know about the new file.
4 - Then from the REPL, I can import my file.

Sometimes I don't wait long enough at step 2 and I get mangled files.

To be really sure, for step 2, you can do an eject of the removable drive. This will flush everything.