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16 This repository contains a selection of packages mirroring the CircuitPython API
17 on hosts running micropython. Working code exists to emulate the CircuitPython packages;
19 * **board** - breakout-specific pin identities
20 * **microcontroller** - chip-specific pin identities
21 * **digitalio** - digital input/output pins, using pin identities from board+microcontroller packages
22 * **bitbangio** - software-driven interfaces for I2C, SPI
23 * **busio** - hardware-driven interfaces for I2C, SPI, UART
24 * **time** * - substitute functions monkey-patched to time module
30 The Micropython compatibility layers described above are intended to provide a CircuitPython-like API for devices which
31 are running CPython or Micropython. Since corresponding packages should be built-in to any standard
32 CircuitPython image, they have no value on a device already running CircuitPython and would likely conflict in unhappy ways.
34 The test suites in the test/src folder under **testing.universal** are by design
35 intended to run on *either* CircuitPython *or* Micropython+compatibility layer to prove conformance.
40 At the time of writing (`git:7fc1f8ab <https://github.com/cefn/Adafruit_Micropython_Blinka/tree/7fc1f8ab477124628a5afebbf6826005955805f9>`_),
41 the following sequence runs through some basic testing of the digitalio compatibility layer...
43 .. code-block:: python
45 from testing import test_module_name
46 test_module_name("testing.universal.digitalio")
48 An example log from running the suites is `here <https://github.com/cefn/Adafruit_Micropython_Blinka/issues/2#issuecomment-366713394>`_ .
54 Contributions are welcome! Please read our `Code of Conduct
55 <https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>`_
56 before contributing to help this project stay welcoming.
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64 Sphinx is used to build the documentation based on rST files and comments in the code. First,
65 install dependencies (feel free to reuse the virtual environment from above):
70 source .env/bin/activate
71 pip install Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
73 Now, once you have the virtual environment activated:
78 sphinx-build -E -W -b html . _build/html
80 This will output the documentation to ``docs/_build/html``. Open the index.html in your browser to
81 view them. It will also (due to -W) error out on any warning like Travis will. This is a good way to
82 locally verify it will pass.