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As marcoarruda already wrote, there does not seem to be an option for this in the current API.

I checked the code of the roslaunch executable and found out, that they directly read the values from sys.argv. So a not very nice but working hack is to add arguments there before using roslaunch:

sys.argv.append("bla:=42")

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