micropython-lib Problem with installing micropython-machine?

I have run a program before on my RPI Pico Zero W with the machine module in PyCharm but now I cannot set it up again. When running the program, I get an error: "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'machine'"

Running both pip install micropython-machine and pip install machine comes with errors. (Although I don't know what is the difference between those two. I am new in Python.)

Below are outputs in terminal for those two commands and I don't know how to resolve them.

For pip install micropython-machine I get:

Collecting micropython-machine Using cached micropython-machine-0.2.tar.gz (1.7 kB) ERROR: micropython-machine from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/31/a3282942b3e96881393db406130735913c647f0fc9e07a0d60d7b546b06b/micropython-machine-0.2.tar.gz does not appear to be a Python project: neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.

For pip install machine I get:

Collecting machine Using cached machine-0.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (4.2 kB) Collecting pycrypto (from machine) Using cached pycrypto-2.6.1.tar.gz (446 kB) Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done Building wheels for collected packages: pycrypto Building wheel for pycrypto (setup.py) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully. │ exit code: 1 ╰─> [28 lines of output] warning: GMP or MPIR library not found; Not building Crypto.PublicKey._fastmath. winrand.c C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(31): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'intmax_t' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(32): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'rem' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(32): error C2059: syntax error: ';' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(33): error C2059: syntax error: '}' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(35): error C2061: syntax error: identifier 'imaxdiv_t' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(35): error C2059: syntax error: ';' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(45): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(46): error C2146: syntax error: missing ')' before identifier '_Number' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(46): error C2061: syntax error: identifier '_Number' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(46): error C2059: syntax error: ';' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(47): error C2059: syntax error: ')' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(50): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(51): error C2146: syntax error: missing ')' before identifier '_Numerator' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(51): error C2061: syntax error: identifier '_Numerator' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(51): error C2059: syntax error: ';' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(51): error C2059: syntax error: ',' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(53): error C2059: syntax error: ')' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(55): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(61): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(68): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(74): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(81): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(87): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(94): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.22621.0\ucrt\inttypes.h(100): error C2143: syntax error: missing '{' before '__cdecl' error: command 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.37.32822\bin\HostX86\x64\cl.exe' failed with exit code 2 [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for pycrypto Running setup.py clean for pycrypto Failed to build pycrypto ERROR: Could not build wheels for pycrypto, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects

Oct 01 '23 15:10 somniumLux

micropython-machine is a very old library that's unlikely to work any more.

I'm confused about your hardware:

… my RPI Pico Zero W

Is it a

Raspberry Pi Pico W — which does run MicroPython directly, and has the machine module built in; or
Raspberry Pi Zero W — which runs Linux and Python 3, but doesn't provide pin access via the same machine interface. You can run the Unix port of MicroPython under Linux, but it has very little hardware access.

It looks like you're getting Windows error messages, which means that the module is trying to install there.

This might be better resolved in the Discussions forum.

Oct 06 '23 15:10 scruss

Hi, somehow it is working now. I reinstalled PyCharm after a while and it succesfully pulls the module. I don't know how or why but compilation works.

Btw, my is Raspberry Pi Pico W, sorry for my mistake.

Thanks for you response :)

Jan 06 '24 14:01 somniumLux

I just observed the same issue on a A64-Olinuxino, running Linux with Python3:

pip install micropython-machine
Collecting micropython-machine
  Downloading micropython-machine-0.2.tar.gz (1.7 kB)
ERROR: micropython-machine from https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/e1/31/a3282942b3e96881393db406130735913c647f0fc9e07a0d60d7b546b06b/micropython-machine-0.2.tar.gz does not appear to be a Python project: neither 'setup.py' nor 'pyproject.toml' found.

If micropython-machine is not supposed to be installed via pip, please consider removing it from PyPI https://pypi.org/project/micropython-machine/

Jan 11 '24 14:01 ilario

What are you trying to achieve here?

micropython code that uses machine is code that's directly controlling hardware - this could never "just work" on desktop python, regardless of which packages are installed.

Though yeah, it probably would be best for all legacy micropython packages on pypi to just be removed, they're not intended to be used at all now that mip is the standard package manager.

Jan 11 '24 21:01 andrewleech

What are you trying to achieve here?

micropython code that uses machine is code that's directly controlling hardware - this could never "just work" on desktop python, regardless of which packages are installed.

Yep, don't worry. I tried to install it before realizing this.

If you are curious about how I ended up trying to install it: What happened is that A64-Olinuxino is not recognized by Adafruit_Python_PlatformDetect, so that when trying to use Adafruit Blinka's busio for I2c, there are various imports until getting to this switch: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka/blob/60fa43167c45c1ab162292dcf26d6dce9e001851/src/busio.py#L139-L149 As the A64-Olinuxino is not known by Adafruit_Python_PlatformDetect, the code uses micropython things. I suppose that the meaningful solution would be that anyone from @OLIMEX or any member of their community add the support of A64-Olinuxino in PlatformDetect.

Though yeah, it probably would be best for all legacy micropython packages on pypi to just be removed, they're not intended to be used at all now that mip is the standard package manager.

Yep, for me it was confusing to have micropython-machine there but to not be able to install it with the usual tools.

Jan 12 '24 09:01 ilario

The problems here seem to have been resolved/clarified. Proposing to close this issue

Aug 25 '24 10:08 jonnor