ROS2 and Python

[lcoetzee]

Good morning

we would like to migrate to ROS2, using Python as primary development language. Perusing the forums I havent seen any activity along this line. It appears as if Python support for API2 is one of the big challenges to resolve. Is anyone aware of activities related to this (ROS2, Python and Python support for API2)?

Regards

[verbeek]

Hi lcoetzee,
API2 is C++. But it also has a C-Interface. We use the C-Interface for Matlab and LabView but it is perfectly suited to be called from other programming languages as C. So if you google "python call c library" you should find examples how to make calls to a C library from your python code. By this you code create a wrapper to be used by ROS2.
Regards
Christian