try time.ticks_ms

[jepler]

.. which allows adafruit_ticks to be imported in micropython or (more importantly) from the 'unix port' of CircuitPython, used for some automated testing.

This is a step towards allowing the build-time testsuite to run with Adafruit_CircuitPython_asyncio instead of micropython's uasyncio.

The patch reindents a block of code, so it's best understood through the output of git show -b which doesn't show whitespace changes:

@@ -52,6 +55,28 @@ _TICKS_HALFPERIOD = const(_TICKS_PERIOD // 2)
 try:
     from supervisor import ticks_ms  # pylint: disable=unused-import
 except (ImportError, NameError):
+    import time
+
+    if _ticks_ms := getattr(time, "ticks_ms", None):
+
+        def ticks_ms() -> int:
+            """Return the time in milliseconds since an unspecified moment,
+            wrapping after 2**29ms.
+
+            The wrap value was chosen so that it is always possible to add or
+            subtract two `ticks_ms` values without overflow on a board without
+            long ints (or without allocating any long integer objects, on
+            boards with long ints).
+
+            This ticks value comes from a low-accuracy clock internal to the
+            microcontroller, just like `time.monotonic`.  Due to its low
+            accuracy and the fact that it "wraps around" every few days, it is
+            intended for working with short term events like advancing an LED
+            animation, not for long term events like counting down the time
+            until a holiday."""
+            return _ticks_ms() & _TICKS_MAX  # pylint: disable=not-callable
+
+    else:
         try:
             from time import monotonic_ns as _monotonic_ns

[dhalbert]

I get it, looks good.