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Python: Getting a package's absolute path

asked 2019-08-07 04:02:53 -0500

Jägermeister

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I'm trying to navigate in the code having paths that are not hardcoded. I would like to know if there is a ROS/Python way of referring to a package's path. Something like navigateToPackage("package_name") is what I am after. Is this a supported feature? Does it exist?

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answered 2019-08-07 04:41:09 -0500

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updated 2019-08-07 04:45:45 -0500

You can get the path of packages with the rospkgpython library: http://docs.ros.org/independent/api/r...

import rospkg
rp = rospkg.RosPack()
package_path = rp.get_path('package_name')

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Worked like a charm, thank you.

Jägermeister ( 2019-08-07 05:11:51 -0500 )edit

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