Get package path with rospy

Question

Hi,

I'm using ROS with rospy and I need to get the package path to load some data files, because I can't use relative paths while it's not always expected to run the nodes from any fixed location.

So, does anyone know how could I get the absolute path of a package?

Thank you in advance,

XNor

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Originally posted by XNor on ROS Answers with karma: 61 on 2013-05-25

Post score: 6

Answer 1

How to do that is documented here: ROS Filesystem Concepts/Packages

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Originally posted by Stefan Kohlbrecher with karma: 24361 on 2013-05-25

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 11

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Original comments

Comment by XNor on 2013-05-26:
Thank you so much, I was searching about it but I didn't find anything. I knew there sould be a way.