I should add, rospy exposes the name library in a more raw way:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/rospy/Overview/Names%20and%20Node%20Information
You can use it to construct this behavior, but it is not as elegant as
NodeHandles.
- Ken
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Ken Conley <
kwc@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> rospy doesn't have this ability yet.
>
> - Ken
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mike Purvis
> <mpurvis@clearpathrobotics.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> Comparing rospy and roscpp, it looks like roscpp provides for the ability to
>> set a default namespace using the NodeHandle constructor, as done in mux:
>>
>> // Put our API into the "mux" namespace, which the user should usually
>> remap
>> ros::NodeHandle mux_nh("mux");
>> // Latched publisher for selected input topic name
>> g_pub_selected = mux_nh.advertise<std_msgs::String>(string("selected"), 1,
>> true);
>> // Backward compatibility
>> ros::ServiceServer ss = n.advertiseService(g_output_topic +
>> string("_select"), sel_srv_cb_dep);
>> // New service
>> ros::ServiceServer ss_select = mux_nh.advertiseService(string("select"),
>> sel_srv_cb);
>> (etc)
>>
>> Is there a way to achieve this in rospy? Would you just do it using the argv
>> parameter to init_node, or is there some better way?
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> _______________________________________________
>> ros-users mailing list
>> ros-users@code.ros.org
>> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users
>>
>>
>