AttributeError: module 'xacro' has no attribute 'process'

[joaomoura24]

When running the simple_joint_space_planner.py example in the master branch i get the following error related with the xacro functionality:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "example/simple_joint_space_planner.py", line 138, in <module> main() File "example/simple_joint_space_planner.py", line 102, in main kuka = KukaLBR() File "/home/joao/Documents/Projects/test/optas/example/pybullet_api.py", line 168, in __init__ urdf_string = xacro.process(xacro_filename) AttributeError: module 'xacro' has no attribute 'process'

[cmower]

Ahh, I can reproduce this error. This is happening because you have ROS1 sourced and the xacro module is being imported from the ROS1 distribution packages - and I believe this is an older version of xacro. I have the updated version installed so works for me, but when I source ROS1, the old package is imported and I get the same failure.

I will look into how to resolve this issue in general.

[joaomoura24]

Ok. Ideally this wouldn't depend on having ROS installed at all even.
Using some package for xacro that is available through pip.

[cmower]

Ok, this is a little more difficult than I thought. So, xacro can run in a ROS agnostic environment. However, "this implies that you cannot use ROS-specific features in xacro". We can look into modifying the med7 xacro file, but we should make a "Known issues" section in the README/documentation.

[cmower]

I changed the label for this issue from bug to invalid, since it is not a bug with optas.

[cmower]

011f77e is a small example of the things that need to be removed from the xacro file so it can be loaded in a ROS agnostic environment.

[cmower]

Closing, this will be resolved when #79 is merged.