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Ok I just found the reason for this failure: You need to add PySys_SetArgv(argc, argv); right after Py_Initialize(); to assign the c++-arguments over to the Python interpreter which otherwise would be started without any arguments. After appending this line, sys.argv will be set and the rospy module would be loaded.

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