Accessing SmartDrive from SDCard .py file?

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Hi, I was looking at the suggestions to use multiple .py files from this post:

VEXcode V5 2.0.7 Python VM updates - Programming Support / VEXcode V5 Tech Support - VEX Forum

most publicly available modules will probably not import without modification.

It does seem like a lot of VEX objects do work, such as Inertial, Rotation etc. However SmartDrive (and DriveTrain) do not . E.g.: when called from main.py

File: main.py ...

# Library imports
from vex import *

print(Inertial.__name__)
print(DriveTrain.__name__)
       
Output:

>>> inertial
DriveTrain

Whereas this does not:

File: main.py ...

# Library imports
from vex import *
from helper import *

File: helper.py ... (on SDCard)

# Library imports

from vex import *

print(Inertial.__name__)
print(DriveTrain.__name__)

Output:
>>> inertial
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "userpy", line 3, in <module>
  File "helper.py", line 5, in <module>
NameError: name not defined

Curious if there was a workaround since the original post.

Thanks,
Nick.

2

DriveTrain is a class in the “drivetrain” module, yes, it’s a little different than normal Python sometimes due to being frozen into the VM

from vex import *
from motorgroup import *
from drivetrain import *
from smartdrive import *

print(Inertial.__name__)
print(DriveTrain.__name__)

or

import vex
import drivetrain

print(vex.Inertial.__name__)
print(drivetrain.DriveTrain.__name__)
3

Minor update, I guess I need to do this to silence the import could not be resolved warning:

from vex import *
from motorgroup import * # pyright: ignore[reportMissingImports]
from drivetrain import * # pyright: ignore[reportMissingImports]
from smartdrive import * # pyright: ignore[reportMissingImports]