Uflash is a utility for flashing the BBC micro:bit with Python scripts and the MicroPython runtime.

It provides two services:

* a library of functions to programmatically create a hex file and flash it onto a BBC micro:bit. * a command line utility (uflash) that will flash Python scripts onto a BBC micro:bit

Several essential operations are implemented:

* encode Python into the hex format * embed the resulting hexified Python into the MicroPython runtime hex * extract an encoded Python script from a MicroPython hex file * discover the connected micro:bit * copy the resulting hex onto the micro:bit, thus flashing the device * specify the MicroPython runtime hex in which to embed your Python code

By default, python3-uflash uses the MicroPython runtime for micro:bit provided by the firmware-microbit-micropython package and which is located at /usr/share/firmware-microbit-micropython/firmware.hex.

This package provides the Python 3 module.