NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display
RobH
rob at despammer.com
Fri Sep 27 14:46:58 EDT 2019
On 27/09/2019 15:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:48:29 +0100, RobH <rob at despammer.com> declaimed the
> following:
>
>> Ok, the adafruit_character_lcd is in the same directory as yours, and so
>> is Blinka and Purio. It seems to be a bit of a long path to type to get
>> to the Adafruit_Charlcd directory, but is there a shortcut way of
>> getting to the said directory.
>>
>
> Other than to examine the source code of the library you have no need
> to specify the directory... Within a Python script, a plain "import" should
> work.
>
> pi at raspberrypi:~$ python3
> Python 3.7.3 (default, Apr 3 2019, 05:39:12)
> [GCC 8.2.0] on linux
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import adafruit_blinka
>>>> import adafruit_character_lcd as acl
>>>> dir(acl)
> ['__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__',
> '__path__', '__spec__']
>>>> help(acl)
>
>
> Help on package adafruit_character_lcd:
>
> NAME
> adafruit_character_lcd
>
> PACKAGE CONTENTS
> character_lcd
> character_lcd_i2c
> character_lcd_rgb_i2c
> character_lcd_spi
>
> FILE
> (built-in)
>
> (END)
>>>> from adafruit_character_lcd import character_lcd as cl
>>>> help(cl)
> Help on module adafruit_character_lcd.character_lcd in
> adafruit_character_lcd:
>
> NAME
> adafruit_character_lcd.character_lcd
>
> DESCRIPTION
> `adafruit_character_lcd.character_lcd`
> ====================================================
>
> Module for interfacing with monochromatic character LCDs
>
> * Author(s): Kattni Rembor, Brent Rubell, Asher Lieber,
> Tony DiCola (original python charLCD library)
>
> Implementation Notes
> --------------------
>
> **Hardware:**
>
> "* `Adafruit Character LCDs <http://www.adafruit.com/category/63_96>`_"
>
> **Software and Dependencies:**
>
> * Adafruit CircuitPython firmware:
> https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/releases
> * Adafruit's Bus Device library (when using I2C/SPI):
> https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_BusDevice
>
> CLASSES
> {AND MUCH MORE}
>
>
Thanks for all that information, but first of all using just import
adafruit blinka did not work as it returned bas: import: command not found.
I should say that this is on a raspberry pi zero w, if it makes any
difference.
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