Module Hierarchy

• roslib.rostime: ROS Time representation, including Duration
• rospy: ROS client library for Python.
  • rospy.client: Additional ROS client API methods.
  • rospy.core: rospy internal core implementation library
  • rospy.exceptions: rospy exception types
  • rospy.impl
    • rospy.impl.init: Internal use: rospy initialization.
    • rospy.impl.masterslave: Internal use: ROS Node (Slave) API.
    • rospy.impl.paramserver: Parameter Server Cache
    • rospy.impl.registration: Internal use: handles maintaining registrations with master via internal listener APIs
    • rospy.impl.rosout: Internal use: support for /rosout logging in rospy
    • rospy.impl.simtime: Internal-use: Support for simulated clock.
    • rospy.impl.tcpros: TCPROS connection protocol.
    • rospy.impl.tcpros_base: Internal use: common TCPROS libraries
    • rospy.impl.tcpros_pubsub: Internal use: Topic-specific extensions for TCPROS support
    • rospy.impl.tcpros_service: Internal use: Service-specific extensions for TCPROS support
    • rospy.impl.transport: Base classes for rospy transports
    • rospy.impl.udpros: UDPROS connection protocol.
    • rospy.impl.validators: Internal-use Python decorators for parameter validation
  • rospy.msproxy: Master/Slave XML-RPC Wrappers.
  • rospy.names: Support for ROS Names
  • rospy.numpy_msg: Support for using numpy with rospy messages.
  • rospy.rostime: ROS time and duration representations, as well as internal routines for managing wallclock versus a simulated clock.
  • rospy.service: Base-classes and management of ROS services.
  • rospy.topics: rospy implementation of topics.