how to execute "OTHER" python scripts

[yk22wong]

Hi everyone, I have to admit I am new to Pyboard so if my question does not make sense in the PYB env, please feel free to correct me.

I got my Pyb a couple of months ago. Hardware, REPL,....everything works fine. Perfect, no complaint. My question is I do not know how to run a python script in the board if I do not want to name the script main.py.

Many thanks in advance for any advice.

By the way, I did some search in the forum as well as on the uPython website, I can't find anything that related to my question. If I have overlooked, my sincere apology.

[dhylands]

If your file is called foo.py then from the REPL, you can type

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import foo

That's how I normally test things. Then, when I'm happy everything is working properly, I put the 'import foo' line into main,py.

[yk22wong]

Hi Dave,

That works. Million thanks.

[yk22wong]

A little bit of follow up. The “import myfile” method works. But I recently notice that it only works if that is the first time I do the import in that terminal session. If I type “import myfile” again after its first successful run, I will not see the Python script run again. There is no error shown also, it just gives me a new REPL prompt.

I think it is normal and it has to do with the meaning of “import”. So right now if I want to run myfile again, I have to exit the picocom as well as the Ubuntu terminal session and come back in again.

Just wonder if there is any workaround less clumsy than mine?

[OutoftheBOTS_]

I add this to my boot.py

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import gc
from sys import modules
def reload(mod):
  mod_name = mod.__name__
  del sys.modules[mod_name]
  gc.collect()
  return __import__(mod_name)

First time that I want to run a file I will use import file_name then anytime after that I want to run it I use reload(file_name)

[yk22wong]

Hi OotB,

Many thanks for sharing your idea. I'll try this out tonight.

regards
YK

[yk22wong]

Confirmation to OotB, your method works. Exactly as I needed. A big thank you.
However I need to change your second line to "import sys" in my env.

[deshipu]

Or you can just press ctrl+d to do a soft reset.

[benalb]

I usually do this:

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cat test01.py                                                                                                                                 

def my_test():
    print("hello, test")

def main():
    my_test()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

and then, can do:

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>>> import test01
>>> from test01 import my_test
>>> 
>>> test01.my_test()
hello, test
>>> test01.main()
hello, test
>>> 
>>> my_test()
hello, test

[yk22wong]

Or you can just press ctrl+d to do a soft reset.

Yes, I thought of this after using the reload method. Thanks