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python dynamically setup ros environment
When working on a python package, I usually do not assume anything in the environment. Software is after all generic and abstract, and the environment should, ideally, not matter. Afterall a python script can easily check and adapt the environment, so that it can do its job.
I m currently working on a package that dynamically setup ROS environment : https://github.com/asmodehn/pyros-setup.
Basically replacing the "source .../setup.bash" call by a python function call, so that ROS can be easily "activated / deactivated" from python code.
It s currently very basic, and there is probably a better/simpler way of doing it ( like calling the _setup_util.py from the workspaces we want to use https://github.com/asmodehn/pyros-setup/issues/10). It would be useful to have somewhere...
That looks potentially interesting. How about submitting a PR to add documentation for (or at least a pointer to) it to the top-level README.md in this repo?
