circuitpython/docs
Damien George b16146d189 docs/machine: Change sleep to lightsleep and add timeout arguments.
The machine.sleep() function can be misleading because it clashes with
time.sleep() which has quite different semantics.  So change it to
machine.lightsleep() which shows that it is closer in behaviour to
machine.deepsleep().

Also, add an optional argument to these two sleep functions to specify a
maximum time to sleep for.  This is a common operation and underlying
hardware usually has a special way of performing this operation.

The existing machine.sleep() function will remain for backwards
compatibility purposes, and it can simply be an alias for
machine.lightsleep() without arguments.  The behaviour will be the same.
2019-01-27 11:12:16 +11:00
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differences docs/differences: Clarify the differences are against Python 3.4. 2019-01-11 12:11:02 +11:00
esp32 docs: Add initial docs for esp32 port, including quick-ref and general. 2019-01-25 12:18:34 +11:00
esp8266 docs: Unify all the ports into one set of documentation. 2018-10-01 13:53:53 +10:00
library docs/machine: Change sleep to lightsleep and add timeout arguments. 2019-01-27 11:12:16 +11:00
pyboard docs: Unify all the ports into one set of documentation. 2018-10-01 13:53:53 +10:00
readthedocs/settings docs: Add RTD local_settings file, to add custom templates. 2014-12-21 11:21:06 +00:00
reference docs/reference/index: Remove conditional for inline asm docs. 2018-07-20 15:51:06 +10:00
static docs: Add M-logo as favicon. 2017-02-07 20:04:40 +11:00
templates docs: Add initial docs for esp32 port, including quick-ref and general. 2019-01-25 12:18:34 +11:00
wipy docs/wipy: Fix links to network.Server, and markup for boot.py. 2018-10-01 14:08:02 +10:00
Makefile docs/Makefile: define and use PYTHON as the interpreter for CPYDIFF 2017-02-27 15:39:55 +11:00
README.md docs/README: Remove references to MICROPY_PORT when building docs. 2018-12-11 02:55:22 +11:00
conf.py all: Bump version to 1.10. 2019-01-26 00:56:48 +11:00
index.rst docs: Add initial docs for esp32 port, including quick-ref and general. 2019-01-25 12:18:34 +11:00
license.rst docs/license: Update copyright year. 2017-06-23 21:48:27 +03:00
make.bat Add .gitattributes file to force text line endings to LF. 2015-04-16 22:23:56 +01:00

README.md

MicroPython Documentation

The MicroPython documentation can be found at: http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/

The documentation you see there is generated from the files in the docs tree: https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/docs

Building the documentation locally

If you're making changes to the documentation, you may want to build the documentation locally so that you can preview your changes.

Install Sphinx, and optionally (for the RTD-styling), sphinx_rtd_theme, preferably in a virtualenv:

 pip install sphinx
 pip install sphinx_rtd_theme

In micropython/docs, build the docs:

make html

You'll find the index page at micropython/docs/build/html/index.html.

PDF manual generation

This can be achieved with:

make latexpdf

but require rather complete install of LaTeX with various extensions. On Debian/Ubuntu, try (500MB+ download):

apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra