But breaking out the ESP8266’s I2C pins the pins that ESPEasy uses for software-emulated I2C turns this little “switch” into something much more useful — a wall-powered IoT sensor node in ...

On the ESP8266, because it’s all in Python, the code is similar. In fact, the same basic code would work between two computers running vanilla Python just as well as the ESP8266 running MicroPython.