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roslib is largely deprecated starting in the ROS Fuerte release.
roslib has a very important role in all Python code written for ROS: it contains the L{load_manifest()} method, which updates the PYTHONPATH based on a set of ROS Package manifest.xml files.
Beyond the important load_manifest() call, most of the rest of roslib consists of low-level libraries that 99% of ROS users need not interact with. These libraries are primarily to support higher-level ROS Python libraries, such as the rospy client library, as well as numerous ROS tools (e.g. rostopic).
| Module | exceptions |
Provides the L{ROSLibException} class, which is common to many roslib libraries. |
| Module | gentools |
Library for supporting message and service generation for all ROS client libraries. This is mainly responsible for calculating the md5sums and message definitions of classes. |
| Module | launcher |
Python path loader for python scripts and applications. Paths are derived from dependency structure declared in ROS manifest files. |
| Module | manifest |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | manifestlib |
Internal library for processing 'manifest' files, i.e. manifest.xml and stack.xml. For external code apis, see L{roslib.manifest} and L{roslib.stack_manifest}. |
| Module | message |
Support library for Python autogenerated message files. This defines the Message base class used by genmsg_py as well as support libraries for type checking and retrieving message classes by type name. |
| Module | msgs |
No module docstring; 0/2 variable, 0/15 constant, 23/26 functions, 0/1 exception, 3/3 classes documented |
| Module | names |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. genmsg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | network |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rosgraph). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | packages |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | resources |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | rosenv |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | rospack |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | scriptutil |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | srvs |
ROS Service Description Language Spec Implements U{http://ros.org/wiki/srv} |
| Module | stack |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
| Module | stacks |
Warning: do not use this library. It is unstable and most of the routines here have been superseded by other libraries (e.g. rospkg). These routines will likely be deleted in future releases. |
From __init__.py:
| Function | is |
General API for a script specifying that it is being run in an interactive environment. Many libraries may wish to change their behavior based on being interactive (e.g. disabling signal handlers on Ctrl-C). |
| Function | set |
General API for a script specifying that it is being run in an interactive environment. Many libraries may wish to change their behavior based on being interactive (e.g. disabling signal handlers on Ctrl-C). |
| Variable | __version__ |
Undocumented |
| Variable | _is |
Undocumented |
General API for a script specifying that it is being run in an interactive environment. Many libraries may wish to change their behavior based on being interactive (e.g. disabling signal handlers on Ctrl-C).
@param interactive: True if current script is being run in an interactive shell @type interactive: bool