Hi Pat,

There aren't any tools, but it's pretty easy to do with rosrecord:

[(t, msg.var1) for topic, msg, t in
rosrecord.logplayer('/path/to/some/bagfile.bag') if topic ==
'/important_topic']


Hope that helps,
Tim

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Patrick Bouffard <
bouffard@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Are there tools in existence that allow one to easily grab any given
> variable out of a bagfile, in Python (ideally) or Matlab (if push
> comes to shove)? I'd like to be able to do something like the
> following pseudo-python-code:
>
> from awesome_plotting_package import plot
> from super_bagfile_package import BagFile
> mybag = BagFile('/path/to/some/bagfile.bag')
> (t_important_var1, important_var1) = mybag.get('/important_topic/var1')
> plot(t_important_var1, important_var1)
>
>
> ... and this would give me a plot of my important variable vs. time.
> This would assume important_var1 is of a numeric type like float64,
> and I as the user would probably need to do special processing to
> parse other types like arrays, but that would be pretty
> straightforward.
>
> Does something similar to the above exist? If not, I'll try to put
> something together and share it.
>
> Cheers,
> Pat
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