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+# The MIT License (MIT)
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2020 Melissa LeBlanc-Williams for Adafruit Industries
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
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+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+# THE SOFTWARE.
+
+"""
+`displayio`
+================================================================================
+
+displayio for Blinka
+
+**Software and Dependencies:**
+
+* Adafruit Blinka:
+ https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/releases
+
+* Author(s): Melissa LeBlanc-Williams
+
+"""
+
+__version__ = "0.0.0-auto.0"
+__repo__ = "https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_displayio.git"
+
+# pylint: disable=unnecessary-pass, unused-argument
+
+
+class I2CDisplay:
+ """Manage updating a display over I2C in the background while Python code runs.
+ It doesn’t handle display initialization.
+ """
+
+ def __init__(self, i2c_bus, *, device_address, reset=None):
+ """Create a I2CDisplay object associated with the given I2C bus and reset pin.
+
+ The I2C bus and pins are then in use by the display until displayio.release_displays() is
+ called even after a reload. (It does this so CircuitPython can use the display after your
+ code is done.) So, the first time you initialize a display bus in code.py you should call
+ :py:func`displayio.release_displays` first, otherwise it will error after the first
+ code.py run.
+ """
+ pass
+
+ def reset(self):
+ """Performs a hardware reset via the reset pin. Raises an exception if called
+ when no reset pin is available.
+ """
+ pass
+
+ def send(self, command, data):
+ """Sends the given command value followed by the full set of data. Display state,
+ such as vertical scroll, set via send may or may not be reset once the code is
+ done.
+ """
+ pass