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authorDamien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com>2019-04-18 14:16:11 +1000
committerDamien George <damien.p.george@gmail.com>2019-04-18 14:17:01 +1000
commit4ce0091449052daca592f852a31eece074d34a57 (patch)
tree61c64071fa71a8373d830807ee1a2f93f873caff
parentd4e182039f61979b22071274149b0ffcea17c370 (diff)
esp32/README: Add info about pyparsing and the correct Python version.
See issue #4655.
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diff --git a/ports/esp32/README.md b/ports/esp32/README.md
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+++ b/ports/esp32/README.md
@@ -48,12 +48,12 @@ If you use WSL then follow the
[Linux guidelines](https://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get-started/linux-setup.html)
for the ESP-IDF instead of the Windows ones.
-The Espressif ESP-IDF instructions above only install pyserial for Python 2,
-so if you're running Python 3 or a non-system Python you'll also need to
-install `pyserial` (or `esptool`) so that the Makefile can flash the board
-and set parameters:
+You will also need either Python 2 or Python 3, along with the `pyserial` and
+`pyparsing` packages installed for the version of Python that you will be using
+(when building you can use, eg, `make PYTHON=python2` to specify the version
+used). To install the required packages do:
```bash
-$ pip install pyserial
+$ pip install pyserial pyparsing
```
Once everything is set up you should have a functioning toolchain with