Stubs for the micro:bit V2 version of MicroPython?
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Hello,
Not sure if this is possible, given the current situation, but it would be great to have stubs for the micro:bit V2 version of MicroPython:
Currently, only their online editor is main way to code for it:
https://microbit.org/get-started/user-guide/python-editor/
https://tech.microbit.org/software/micropython/
But ideally, I really want to use Visual Studio Code locally.
What makes this maybe a bit tricky is that I believe they have their own fork of MicroPython:
https://github.com/microbit-foundation/micropython-microbit-v2
https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/v2-docs/devguide/flashfirmware.html#micro-bit-v2
They do have their own stubs for their own online editor:
https://github.com/microbit-foundation/micropython-microbit-stubs
But I cannot figure out any good way to use these stubs in VS Code. Ideally, they could be pip installed just like the ones here.
Happy to help, where possible, but I'm not even sure where to get started.
Hi Dave,
Ive looked before at automatically generating stubs for the MicroBit v1 - and found that it lacks the ability to write files to a filesystem. Not sure if that is any different for the v2.
The microbit stubs project is indeed currently not pip installable, but that could be added with relative ease.
I've left a comment in the thread you started.
Another microbit project that has already published to PyPI, and that you could install straight away is https://pypi.org/project/microbit-stubs/
As they do not include the stdlib stubs - it may be usefull to add the micropython-stdlib-stubs as well
pip install --target typings --no-user microbit-stubs micropython-stdlib-stubs
Thanks for the reply! If I'm using a venv do I need the --target typings --no-user options? Seems to work without those, either way. VS Code / Pylance sees the microbit package just fine. However, in both cases Pylance seems use the "real" stdlib, not those provided by micropython-stdlib-stubs.
Either typings or .venv will work.
to get pylance/pyright to use the micropython stdlib over the included typeshed ones you need to configure pylance where to look for them.
The setting is typeshedPaths and can be found in the user or workspace settings ( or pyproject.toml or pyright.json).
You need to point that to the folder in which the stdlib folder can be found ( and that differs depending on the previous typings .venv choice, but either will work.
( may need a restart of the Pyhon language server / vscode to be picked up )
https://micropython-stubs.readthedocs.io/en/main/22_vscode.html#configure-pylance-to-read-micropython-stdlib-stubs
