Can python subscribe nodelet topic?

Question

I'm new in ROS and I understand that nodelet is using ROS c++ interface.

Currently, I am using a library which can publish nodelet topic. Should I have to write subscriber in c++ or it's OK using python subscriber?

From my testing, I wrote a python script to sub nodelet topic which worked as well as normal node topic. But I am not sure whether subscriber is getting data from nodelet or normal node.

Thanks for helping.

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Originally posted by marshalshiaug on ROS Answers with karma: 13 on 2018-04-23

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Answer 1

Topics published by nodelets are no different from regular topics, apart from the fact that other nodelets hosted by the same nodelet manager can use shared memory to avoid (de)serialisation.

Regular nodes (ie: other processes) cannot, and will thus use the regular TCP/IP (or UDP) based transports to receive the messages (this is irrespective of the programming language: it's more about whether the subscribing node(let) shares an address space with the publisher).

If you desire/require zero-copy pub-sub, writing a nodelet in C++ will be required.

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Originally posted by gvdhoorn with karma: 86574 on 2018-04-23

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by marshalshiaug on 2018-04-23:
@gvdhoorn Thanks for your answer. It's clear.