IDE suggestion #11271

kjm1102 · 2023-04-15T08:08:27Z

kjm1102
Apr 15, 2023

Greeting micropythonistas!

I started my upython journey back in 2016 so Atom with pymakr is my default IDE. Recently I wanted to try out a wemos S2 mini. For some reason Atom won't connect with the mini (could it be something to do with the mini using uart0 for usb?) so I swapped to Thonny which crashes with

>>> THONNY FAILED TO EXECUTE COMMAND get_globals


SCRIPT:
__thonny_helper.print_mgmt_value({name : (__thonny_helper.repr(value), id(value)) for (name, value) in globals().items() if not name.startswith('__')})

STDOUT:


STDERR:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <dictcomp>
TypeError: 'str' object isn't callable

for a simple program that ends

for i in range (9):
 if uart.any(): reply=uart.read(160); print('reply', reply); break

So now I'm in need of an IDE. VScode looks way too complicated so I'm after something simple & reliable that works with an S2 mini & doesn't have a hangup with print statements? Any suggestions?

mattytrentini · 2023-04-15T08:31:27Z

mattytrentini
Apr 15, 2023
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My preference is VS Code, using mpremote in a terminal to synchronise code to a device.

If VS Code is too complex, choose your own IDE (Atom is fine, though development has been discontinued) but, again, use mpremote to interact with your device.

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fabiomolinar Mar 21, 2025

Hi @mattytrentini, I am also using VS Code. However, I didn't figure out a way to set micropython as the python interpreter so I can avoid getting warning messages that the modules I am using are not found. I know I can set up the interpreter in VS Code, but it usually expects a .exe file, and on micropython webpage I can only get the .bin files. So, what do you do in this case?

Josverl Mar 24, 2025
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To have VSCode (and most other mature IDEs that can work with an LSP) 'understand' MicroPython modules, extensions and limitations
you probably want to install the micropython-stubs

fabiomolinar Mar 26, 2025

Thanks for the reference!

ma261065 · 2025-03-24T05:36:36Z

ma261065
Mar 24, 2025
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Have you tried Viper IDE ?

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