circuitpython/docs
Damien George b15348415e extmod/modframebuf: Add support for blit'ing read-only data.
Currently the `FrameBuffer.blit(buf, x, y)` method requires the `buf`
argument to be another `FrameBuffer`, which is quite restrictive because it
doesn't allow blit'ing read-only memory/data.

This commit extends `blit()` to allow the `buf` argument to be a tuple or
list of the form:

    (buffer, width, height, format[, stride])

where `buffer` can be anything with the buffer protocol and may be
read-only, eg `bytes`.

Also, the palette argument to `blit()` may be of the same form.

The form of this tuple/list was chosen to be the same as the signature of
the `FrameBuffer` constructor (that saves quite a bit of code size doing it
that way).

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
2025-06-04 02:40:45 +10:00
..
develop tools/mpy_ld.py: Allow linking static libraries. 2025-03-17 13:03:27 +11:00
differences all: Prune trailing whitespace. 2024-03-07 16:25:17 +11:00
esp32 docs/esp32: Mention the use of Timer(0) by UART.IRQ_RXIDLE. 2025-05-28 12:13:51 +10:00
esp8266 docs: Fix double 'the' in documentation. 2025-02-25 17:07:16 +11:00
library extmod/modframebuf: Add support for blit'ing read-only data. 2025-06-04 02:40:45 +10:00
mimxrt mimxrt: Enable default devices for I2C, SPI and UART. 2025-03-25 12:44:20 +11:00
pyboard docs: Fix the quickref documentation of rtc.datetime(). 2024-12-19 16:00:15 +11:00
readthedocs/settings all: Update Python formatting to ruff-format. 2023-11-03 13:30:41 +11:00
reference docs/reference/mpremote: Document the 'fs tree' command. 2025-05-18 00:20:46 +10:00
renesas-ra docs: Fix the quickref documentation of rtc.datetime(). 2024-12-19 16:00:15 +11:00
rp2 docs/rp2: Add network information to the rp2 quickref. 2025-03-25 23:28:56 +11:00
samd samd/boards: Add two SparkFun SAMD21 boards. 2025-05-28 12:04:42 +10:00
static docs: Update CPython differences and improve the look of table layouts. 2022-08-26 15:09:06 +10:00
templates all: Switch to new preview build versioning scheme. 2023-10-06 12:10:14 +11:00
unix unix: Implement -X realtime command-line option on macOS. 2022-05-24 00:51:47 +10:00
wipy docs: Add a "Reset and Boot Sequence" reference page. 2024-11-19 10:57:26 +11:00
zephyr docs/zephyr: Add zephyr FlashArea IDs docs. 2025-05-02 12:37:45 +10:00
conf.py LICENSE,docs: Update copyright year range to include 2025. 2025-01-22 18:25:20 +11:00
index.rst docs/samd: Add documentation for the samd port. 2022-10-26 23:39:35 +11:00
license.rst docs/license: Update copyright year. 2017-06-23 21:48:27 +03:00
make.bat docs/make.bat: Change Windows output dir from '_build' to 'build'. 2021-09-13 18:15:38 +10:00
Makefile docs/Makefile: Enable parallel compilation for Sphinx. 2022-09-29 23:51:29 +10:00
README.md docs: Set LaTeX engine to XeLaTeX for PDF generation. 2022-06-21 14:49:13 +10:00
requirements.txt docs: Add requirements.txt file with dependencies for Sphinx. 2023-10-02 12:35:12 +11:00

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.

Having readthedocs.org build the documentation

If you would like to have docs for forks/branches hosted on GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket an alternative to building the docs locally is to sign up for a free https://readthedocs.org account. The rough steps to follow are:

  1. sign-up for an account, unless you already have one
  2. in your account settings: add GitHub as a connected service (assuming you have forked this repo on github)
  3. in your account projects: import your forked/cloned micropython repository into readthedocs
  4. in the project's versions: add the branches you are developing on or for which you'd like readthedocs to auto-generate docs whenever you push a change

PDF manual generation

This can be achieved with:

make latexpdf

but requires a rather complete install of LaTeX with various extensions. On Debian/Ubuntu, try (1GB+ download):

apt install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-extra cm-super xindy