Quirks

This section contains information about various interactions between CircuitPython and LCPF. These are not flaws in CircuitPython, but rather limitations and trade-offs imposed on the LCPF’s goal of simplifying things which might have been easier to implement in full, recent CPython systems. Assuming you could actually get full CPython running on a microcontroller … there are some good reasons why CircuitPython doesn’t try and replicate all of CPython’s features.

Object / function scope

Things CircuitPython does not support

• __all__ = ["a","b"] for restricting results of from someModule import *
• __set_name__ for descriptors
• __slots__
• standard modules : inspect, typing, importlib
• stack access (like inspect.currentframe())
• setting _name_ on function / method / closure(lambda) instances
• no way to reload a .mpy file?