bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor

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A MicroPython editor for the BBC micro:bit that works with browsers.

Stars: 201
Forks: 126
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 58

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Dec 16, 2022
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
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PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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Programming languages Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#406 · Opened Sep 7, 2025
U Open

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bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#405 · Opened May 15, 2025
Working on a new iteration of the micro:bit Python Editor Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#391 · 2 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2021
Editor cannot load old file Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#375 · Opened Mar 12, 2021
Hex does not download in iOS Chrome or Firefox Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#367 · Opened Feb 5, 2021
Filesystem long initialisation can cause issues accessing the files modal early Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#366 · Opened Jan 20, 2021
help.html clarifications Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#364 · Opened Jan 14, 2021
Cannot enter # in REPL on Macbook Pro w. UK keyboard Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#361 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 15, 2020
Clicking in REPL doesn't close Help popup Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#359 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 23, 2020
A11y: Modal close "button" should be keyboard focusable Open

a11y

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#355 · Opened Nov 17, 2020
A11y: When tab selection is in Load/Save modal "Or browse a file" shift-tab goes to editor Open

a11y

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#354 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2020
Button to share python code? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#328 · Opened Jun 2, 2020
Create a (log) file ON THE HOST COMPUTER of the output from the serial port Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#324 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2020
Feature request: Be able to transfer files created on micro:bit to host computer Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#323 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 25, 2020
Feature request: New script button Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#309 · Opened Nov 28, 2019
Beta: Pasting text into REPL is not consistent Open

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#280 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 22, 2019
Autocomplete: Window size too short for snippets Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#265 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2019
WebUSB: Missing characters in REPL Open

bug WebUSB

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#253 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 7, 2019
WebUSB: Bad response for 140 -> 5 when using Quick Flash Open

bug WebUSB

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bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#252 · Opened Oct 7, 2019
Partial Flash sometimes equals Endless Flash Open

bug WebUSB

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#240 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2019
Feature Request: Accept alternative .hex runtime Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#220 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 16, 2019
Issue using webUSB/serial in chrome 75 Mac Open

bug WebUSB

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#182 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 2, 2019
Can't get a keyboard up in serial REPL Open

WebUSB

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#181 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 29, 2019
webUSB: Connecting a microbit to smart phone need a diagram in the documentation Open

docs WebUSB

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#178 · Opened Jun 27, 2019
heading of editor page only partially on screen Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#175 · Opened Jun 26, 2019
On android when loading a file - chrome wants access to camera Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#173 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2019
webUSB serial (REPL) doesn't support right click to cut/copy/paste Open

bug WebUSB

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#172 · Opened Jun 25, 2019
Lower bound media-query broken in IE10 Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#170 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 24, 2019
Feature request: webUSB needs a files button Open

enhancement WebUSB

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#164 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 14, 2019
I click download and the dialog defaults to open Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#162 · Opened Jun 13, 2019
Suggestions for the Serial UI Open

enhancement WebUSB

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#145 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 29, 2019
Mixed spaces and tabs in indentions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#142 · Opened Apr 19, 2019
Code hinter causes incorrect entry Open

Autocomplete bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#141 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2019
French version Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#129 · 9 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2019
Add multi-file drop processing Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#111 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 2, 2019
FS: When the filesystem is full, the storage bar last item doesn't round corners Open

bug FileSystem

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#106 · Opened Mar 1, 2019
No indication of file size limits for uploading programs to the micro:bit Open

enhancement FileSystem

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#71 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 10, 2018
Having some trouble with my program Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#66 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 14, 2018
Dragging the buttons will add URLs to the text editor Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#64 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 5, 2018
Occaisional corruption of the downloaded hex file --> The hex file cannot be decoded. Checksum calculation failure occurred Open

bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#55 · 29 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2017
Can we make it clearer how people making accessories should support them in MicroPython? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#53 · 3 comments · Opened May 30, 2017
blocks: save/download and re-load doesn't preserve blocks program Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#51 · 1 reaction · Opened May 15, 2017
Save button is confusing Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#48 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2017
blocks: prevent download when a block is incomplete Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#47 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2017
Blocks: "change <variable> by" block causes import error Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#45 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 20, 2017
feature request: python API available when coding without blocks (eg snippets but displayed like blocks?) Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#44 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 16, 2017
blocks: how to handle 'undocked' blocks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#43 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2017
blocks: no warnings when connecting 'incompatible' blocks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#40 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 15, 2017
blocks: pause/delay and time related blocks seem oddly placed Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#37 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 15, 2017
blocks: hard to find 'str' ("Create text with") for a single string Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bbcmicrobit/PythonEditor#36 · 11 comments · Opened Mar 15, 2017

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