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if name == ' STATIC main' in tf2 tutorials

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asked 2017-07-05 16:27:52 -0500

jwhendy
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The tf2 tutorial on static frames abruptly ends without explaining this:

if __name__ == '__ STATIC main__':
    rospy.init_node('my_tf2_broadcaster')

I've never seen __ STATIC main__ and from googling I can't tell if it's a ROS specific thing or general python syntax. I get no hits for it exactly, so I'm wondering if it's a typo. If so and it should be '__main__', I'm still confused as it would appear the second block would never run.

Could someone clarify that section of code?

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I'm not quite sure what this means; perhaps it is just supposed to indicate to readers that this is an alternate version for publishing a static transform?

ahendrix ( 2017-07-07 01:25:38 -0500 )edit

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answered 2017-07-07 10:16:34 -0500

jwhendy
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After going through the tutorials more, I agree with you @ahendrix. I submitted a suggestion to just ditch the class-based static transform method for consistency/less confusion for beginners.