thanks, everyone, for your help.  unfortunately, i'm still running hardy on this particular machine, so i guess i'm sol.  i've worked around the problem for now (shifting some computation to a C++ node).  i'm afraid i'm stuck with boxturtle for now, but i suppose it's about time i upgraded from ubuntu hardy!

thanks,

wes



On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Wim Meeussen <meeussen@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> i'm a little confused about KDL and python.  i have a C++ node that is using
>> KDL just fine, so i know it's installed.  however, i can't seem to get it
>> imported into a python node.  i should mention that i'm running boxturtle
>
> The Python bindings for KDL are not supported in Boxturtle, because of
> dependency problems (cmake, python-sip4). That said, they will
> probably work on Intrepid and Jaunty, but not on Hardy.   Cturtle has
> full support for PyKDL.
>
> A good way to test PyKDL is:
>
> $ roscd kdl
> $ rospython
>
> and then try to import PyKDL:
>
>>>> import PyKDL
>
> Wim
>
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