import behaviour different between unix port and ESP32 port?

[spierepf]

I am trying to use micropython's unix port as a means of testing my code without having to upload the code to my ESP32 each time.

With some gentle nudging (thanks @tve) I've made some progress.

I'm noticing however, that with libraries like urequests, on the unix platform I need to import them as follows:

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from urequests import urequests

while on an actual ESP32 I need to import them as:

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import urequests

In either case the following statement works as expected:

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print(urequests.get("http://example.com").text)

That has led me to import the urequests library as:

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import sys

if 'linux' == sys.platform:
  from urequests import urequests
else:
  import urequests

which will likely get cumbersome as more libraries need to be incorporated into my project.

Can anyone let me in on what is different between the two platforms that would cause this?

[spierepf]

Fun fact, my convoluted import only appears to work:

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MicroPython v1.11 on 2020-03-29; linux version
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>>> from urequests import urequests
>>> urequests.get("https://example.com").text
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "./lib/urequests/urequests.py", line 104, in get
  File "./lib/urequests/urequests.py", line 124, in urlopen
  File "./lib/urequests/urequests.py", line 30, in __init__
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'IPPROTO_SEC'
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[spierepf]

Here is a github project that I hope will make things a little clearer:

https://github.com/spierepf/micropython-template

You'll want the develop branch.

[tve]

I think you're missing an __init__.py file in your module directory.

[spierepf]

The urequests library is installed by micropip.py (https://github.com/peterhinch/micropyth ... icropip.py), so should it create the __init__.py file?

Even if I `touch pyboard/lib/urequests/__init__.py` I get the same result.

[jimmo]

I might need to do some more research but my memory was that micropip.py was for installing MicroPython packages on CPython.

The unix port should have "upip" available by default. Can you try

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>>> import upip
>>> upip.install('micropython-urequests')
Installing to: /home/jimmo/.micropython/lib/
Warning: micropython.org SSL certificate is not validated
Installing micropython-urequests 0.6 from https://micropython.org/pi/urequests/urequests-0.6.tar.gz
>>> import urequests
>>> urequests.get(...)