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Hi,
I am trying to write to file with a python script using pickle. I am able to do this if I run the script directly using python (file name) but when I run the script using roslaunch it does not write to the file.
How can I make it write to the file while using roslaunch to launch the script?
Thanks!
roslaunch by default starts the nodes in the working directory ROS_HOME, which defaults to ~/.ros/, i. e. /home/user_name/.ros. You may specify the working directory to the directory of the exec by setting the cwd attribute of the node tag: http://wiki.ros.org/roslaunch/XML/node
Another workaround is to give your file operations a full path, as @Bill Smart suggested. You can also set the desired path to a ros parameter, read the ros parameter and operate on the thereby retrieved full path if you which to avoid hard coding the path.
When you run it with roslaunch, it's running in a different environment and (probably) trying to write the file somewhere else in the file system (and probably somewhere you don't have permissions). In Python, try opening the file with it's full pathname (probably starting with /home) and see if that works. If it does, then that's your problem.
Asked: 2015-06-01 22:40:25 -0500
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Last updated: Jun 02 '15
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