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Scripts in /scripts cannot see files in /src/<package name>

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asked 2017-07-30 09:11:41 -0600

jchernus
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I am receiving the following error when trying to run a script in my /catkin_ws/src/<package name="">/scripts directory.

robond@udacity:~/catkin_ws$ rosrun sensor_stick capture_features_new.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/robond/catkin_ws/src/sensor_stick/scripts/capture_features_new.py", line 7, in <module>
    from sensor_stick.pcl_helper import *
ImportError: No module named pcl_helper

All of the files that I am importing from are present in catkin_ws/src/<package name="">/src/<package name="">. Yet, somehow they are invisible to my script...

I have run catkin_make, and sourced devel/setup.bash. A complete noob to ROS, I warn you.

Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

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So after many hours of trying to fix the problem I gave up, copied the package &renamed it. Fiddled around, but it always failed to make, so I deleted it. Tried to make the original again, success, and now the script runs! But why...? Did it just need a clean?

jchernus ( 2017-07-30 10:08:49 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-08-02 08:13:54 -0600

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updated 2017-08-02 08:14:13 -0600

The reason it cannot find your module is that it is not in your $PYTHONPATH. The standard way of solving this would be to write a setup.py in your package and invoke catkin_python_setup() in CMakeLists.txt as described in the last portion of this article: http://wiki.ros.org/rospy_tutorials/Tutorials/Makefile

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