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How can I use pypy instead of the default python interpreter for a ROS node written in python ? I tried:

cd /path/to/node
pypy script/pioneer.py

But I'm getting an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel
  File "scripts/pioneer.py", line 5, in <module>
    import roslib
  File "/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/__init__.py", line 50, in <module>
    from roslib.launcher import load_manifest
  File "/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/roslib/launcher.py", line 42, in <module>
    import rospkg
ImportError: No module named rospkg

Also, changing the first line of the script to #!/usr/bin/pypy and using rosrun yields the same.

EDIT: OK, I added the missing directories to sys.path (namely /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7) but now I'm getting another error:

ImportError: No module named _tf

Thanks, but I mean about the tf python api.

Where can one find documentation on these mysterious functions ? http://ros.org/doc/groovy/api/tf/html/python/ is quite... primitive.

What are the differences between :

rosrun mynode program

And :

cd /path/to/mynode
./program

Why is the first (I assume) preferred, and when is it required ?

No. I was just trying to get things working.

This is what happens when map_server cannot find the bitmap file. There was a typo in my yaml config file.

I'm trying to launch a map_server with a given map.yaml + bitmap, but nothing happens :

$ roscore &
[1] 12749
...
$ rosrun map_server map_server cave.yaml 
[ INFO] [1360845376.280636084]: Loading map from image "./bitmap/cave.png"
$ rostopic list
/rosout
/rosout_agg
$ rosservice list
/rosout/get_loggers
/rosout/set_logger_level

The map_server node doesn't appear to be running and doesn't show up in rqt_graph. What am I doing wrong ?

Cheers

edit: Here's the cave.yaml file.

image: bitmap/cave.png
resolution: 1
origin: [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
occupied_thresh: 0.65
free_thresh: 0.196
negate: 0

edit2: ROS version is Groovy.

Hi

I'm trying to install the sbpl package on Ubuntu 12.04. I installed ros-groovy-sbpl with apt-get but when I run :

$ rosmake sbpl_lattice_planner

I get the following output :

[ rosmake ] rosmake starting...                                                            
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['sbpl_lattice_planner']                               
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory /home/<me>/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20130208-110917
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['sbpl_lattice_planner'] to:
[]                                  
[ rosmake ] WARNING: The following args could not be parsed as stacks or packages:   ['sbpl_lattice_planner']
[ rosmake ] ERROR: No arguments could be parsed into valid package or stack names.

I tried rosdep update and resourcing setup.bash already.

Thanks for any help.