development of a module for the bmp180 pressure sensor

[dhylands]

On a side note, I believe that micropython could take the buspirate to the next level. Now it is all hard-coded in C for a PIC. Using micro-python would allow much more flexibility and a much easier maintenance plus, a lot of more features due to the ARM SoC (e.g. data logging to SD card.)

I saw a mention of the HydraBus over on github. http://hydrabus.com/ mentions micropython and also mentions bus pirate...

[Turbinenreiter]

I'm mostly done.

Any suggestions?

https://github.com/turbinenreiter/micropython-bmp180

[pfalcon]

This looks *really* good for a guy who started with asking questions about hexadecimal numbers . Hopefully that proves that Python is really easy to program with, no matter how much background one has.

That said, there's yet some way to go for that module to have really "professional" look. Few issues immediately catching an eye:

1. Naming. Stuff like "UP()", "UT()", "T()", "p()" is really confusing. I bet you yourself, if looking at the code which uses this module in a year, won't be able to tell what they mean. And other people will have that trouble immediately. So, please consider using more detailed names. They sure should not be too long either. Finding good and consistent naming is kind of art (yeah, like poetry). Ses also suggestion below.

2. Code is vividly not compliant with PEP8 code style guidelines. For example, there's no (or inconsistent) spaces around operators and in function argument lists. Also, PEP8 doesn't appreciate following usage of if/else:

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        if B7 < 0x80000000: p = (B7*2)/B4
        else:                        p = (B7/B4)*2

It should be instead (if you trust PEP8, and you should in general, because most other Python programmers trust PEP8, so if you won't trust PEP8, they won't trust your code):

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        if B7 < 0x80000000:
            p = (B7*2)/B4
        else:
            p = (B7/B4)*2

Anyway once again, this looks very good for v0.5. Btw, did you notice another guy's module for another temperature sensor: http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=154 ? What would be really cool if you guys communicated and came to a common naming conventions on which method names to use to get temperature, etc. - in other words, established an interface which temperature and other sensor modules should provide to be compatible and be able to substitute one another. That would be true Pythonic way and allowed people to write great apps which would work with any hardware easily.

[Turbinenreiter]

Btw, did you notice another guy's module for another temperature sensor: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=154 ? What would be really cool if you guys communicated and came to a common naming conventions on which method names to use to get temperature, etc. - in other words, established an interface which temperature and other sensor modules should provide to be compatible and be able to substitute one another.

Actually, I saw his work and had the same idea. Now that I have solved most of my own problems I will look into that.

Code is vividly not compliant with PEP8 code style guidelines.

Oh, maaan. Yeah, as we talked earlier, I will start using pep8. In this special case ... I would *much* prefer the way I do it right now. Still, code is written to be read by people, so PEP8 wins.
edit: update: Woah, pep8 is great to use. Took me 5 minutes and now it passes. Should be much better now. I actually have to read the whole PEP8 once ... .

Naming.

UP(), UT() and B5() would normally not be used by others, but only internally. Maybe I should underscore them (according to PEP8, there is something in there, leading underscores to show something should be 'private').
T() and p() - that's the common symbols for temperature and pressure. I had get_temp() and get_pressure() before. Better? I will look at the other guys (randomhuman) code as you suggested.

This looks *really* good for a guy who started with asking questions about hexadecimal numbers . Hopefully that proves that Python is really easy to program with, no matter how much background one has.

Thanks! In my Informatics Class for Mechanical Engineers I did calculations in dual and hex per hand and I loved it, but in real code - that threw me off. Also, I'm pythoning for about three years now, sooo ... yeah. But I mostly used numpy and matplotlib for data visualization.

[Turbinenreiter]

I massively reworked the code.