Add better error message and explicity add to setup

[Adafruit_Blinka-hackapet.git] / src / adafruit_blinka / microcontroller / am335x / pin.py

diff --git a/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py b/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py
index 1553ff23fabb80174072941325a8148e5ec38a08..cce0239f166314e33fd2a5a4e6d37b79c3b341a0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py
+++ b/src/adafruit_blinka/microcontroller/am335x/pin.py
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 """AM335x pin names"""
-import Adafruit_BBIO.GPIO as GPIO
+try:
+    from Adafruit_BBIO import GPIO
+except ImportError:
+    raise RuntimeError("The library 'Adafruit_BBIO' was not found. To install, try typing: pip install Adafruit_BBIO")
 
 
 class Pin: