I am working through the ‘Ultimate Starter Kit” for my Raspberry Pi 3+. In Chapter 16 the tutorial shows how to work with a stepper motor.
Note: The program works per the tutorial –
I just cannot understand how the following line is working:
GPIO.output(motorPins[i],((CCWStep[j] == 1<<i) and GPIO.HIGH or GPIO.LOW))motorPins is a four-element array with a hex number in each element.
How is this line evaluated?
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That statement is meaningless without context; is a general programming question not specific to the Pi. If you want to learn programming try to avoid complex statements like that (which are poor practice) and try to break down into each component. – Milliways 4 hours ago
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Hi @Goose23, Welcome and nice to meet you. Ah, let me see. So l I followed your tutorial and skimmed Chapter 16. I read the program listing and found it good, structured and comments nice. You should agree with me IF AND ONLY IF you have done the following 3 things: – tlfong01 13 mins ago
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(1) Spend perhaps at least 30 minutes reading a tutorial of step motor basics: Step Motor tutorial raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/97975/…, (2) Spend 30 minutes to read a python tutorial to understand the meanings of (a) the left shift operator “<<“, (b) the logical operator “AND”, and “OR”, (3) Skim the program listing to get an overview of what is going on, and then look closely the function “moveOnePeriod(direction, ms)” containing the weird statement which will find not that hard to understand after all. – tlfong01 12 mins ago
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(3) Step Motor Programming Learning Notes penzu link: penzu.com/p/0ea8554d. Happy python programming. Cheers 🙂 – tlfong01 12 mins ago
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PS – For the forum discussion I referred above,. you might like to spend more time, perhasp another 30 minutes on Lady Ada’s newbie friendly tutorial on stepping motors (see the reference list for Lady Ada and also Prof Jones’ tutorial if you want to dig deeper). The chat record of my answer also has a more detailed discussion on how to use the four GPIO pins to energize the motor coil in sequences (Half step, Full step, Clockwise, Counter Clockwise etc). Happy reading and learning. Cheers. – tlfong01 1 min ago Edit
GPIO.output(motorPins[i],((CCWStep[j] == 1<<i) and GPIO.HIGH or GPIO.LOW))
GPIO.output is a function which takes two parameters.
The first motorPins[i] specifies the GPIO to act upon. In this case it is entry i in the array motorPins.
The second ((CCWStep[j] == 1<<i) and GPIO.HIGH or GPIO.LOW) specifies the level to assign to the GPIO.
If the expression evaluates to True the GPIO will be set high otherwise it will be set low.
I’m not going to try to work through that expression as it depends on CCWStep.
I would say it is (in my opinion) terrible code and a good example of code you should never write yourself.
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1Thank You. I understand the part you explained and am grateful I am not the only one thinking the code is obtuse. – Goose23 3 hours ago
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