upip is not installed

Question

I'm new to the pico world and micropython. Needless to say, one of the first things anyone should learn is the ability to set up environments and know the structure of the pico.

I have read the documentation for the package distribution process found here. By the looks of it, upip should automatically be installed after dropping the UF2 file on the pico in the file explorer system right? I am using v1.19.1 found here.

When I open an REPL console and run,

import upip

it throws ImportError: no module named 'upip'. Should this automatically be installed like pip is for normal python? This issue has been difficult to come by.

I will also add, however, I am not using the Thonny IDE, but am using PyCharm with a Micropython plug in. I am not sure if this should have any affect on this matter.

Answer 1

As far as I understood, is upip replaced by mip in the 1.19 release of micropython. https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/reference/packages.html

Therefor you should go with

>>> import mip
>>> mip.install("pkgname")