[Pythonedu-wg] Bit shift problem

[Laura Sach]

THANK YOU Tim! Sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees - I inherited
that old code and it didn't occur to me to see if someone had since made a
Python 3 Adafruit library. That works perfectly and is super easy to
install and use.

The Barometric Pressure sensor *shall* go to the ball! :)

Laura

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> On 20/12/2016 09:38, Laura Sach wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on a resource which reads weather data, and I'm using this
>> code to read data from a BMP180 barometric pressure sensor.
>>
>> https://github.com/lawsie/barometric-sensor
>>
>
> Laura,
>
> I may be missing something, but it looks to me as though Adafruit have
> already done this for the modules you're using. The repo you point to at
> the head of the backend file:
>
>   https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code/
>
> describes how they've broken the code out into smaller repos and made them
> work with Py2/3.
>
> Certainly
>
>   https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_BMP
>
> and
>
>
> https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_GPIO/blob/master
> /Adafruit_GPIO/I2C.py
>
> seem, by inspection, to be 2/3 compatible.
>
> I'm happy to help, but is it possible that you're re-inventing the wheel
> here? Or have I missed something?
>
>
> TJG
>
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