More consistent naming of board,microcontroller,implementation

[hackapet/Adafruit_Blinka.git] / python / agnostic.py

diff --git a/python/agnostic.py b/python/agnostic.py
index 41022c80286b790bf433fa10bc482a553c9ac09c..1d0881d2375573965a80f7341bfd5e8ed4549251 100644 (file)
--- a/python/agnostic.py
+++ b/python/agnostic.py
@@ -1,21 +1,24 @@
 """Allows useful indirection to test Pin naming logic by switching platform in testing
 """Allows useful indirection to test Pin naming logic by switching platform in testing

-    or where auto-detection is not feasible (e.g. multiple ESP8266 boards architecturally identical)
+    or provide bootstrapping logic for board identification where auto-detection is not
+    feasible (e.g. multiple ESP8266 boards architecturally identical). Once runtime
+    environment is established, can choose various routes to make available and re-export
+    common modules and operations, depending on platform support

 """
 import sys
 
 try:
 """
 import sys
 
 try:

-    platform = sys.platform
+    microcontroller = sys.platform

 except:
 except:

-    platform = None
+    microcontroller = None

 
 # TODO switch name of platform below to be microcontroller
 
 # TODO switch name of platform below to be microcontroller

-if platform is not None:
-    if platform == "esp8266":
+if microcontroller is not None:
+    if microcontroller == "esp8266":

         board = "feather_huzzah"
         board = "feather_huzzah"

-    elif platform == "samd21":
+    elif microcontroller == "samd21":

         board="feather_m0_express"
         board="feather_m0_express"

-    elif platform == "pyboard":
-        platform="stm32"
+    elif microcontroller == "pyboard":
+        microcontroller= "stm32"

         board="pyboard"
 else:
     board = None
         board="pyboard"
 else:
     board = None