ros publisher and subscriber python code example

Example 1: ros python publisher

#!/usr/bin/env python
# license removed for brevity
import rospy
from std_msgs.msg import String

def talker():
    pub = rospy.Publisher('chatter', String, queue_size=10)
    rospy.init_node('talker', anonymous=True)
    rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10hz
    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
        hello_str = "hello world %s" % rospy.get_time()
        rospy.loginfo(hello_str)
        pub.publish(hello_str)
        rate.sleep()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    try:
        talker()
    except rospy.ROSInterruptException:
        pass

Example 2: ros beginner tutorial python publisher

1 #!/usr/bin/env python
   2 # license removed for brevity
   3 import rospy
   4 from std_msgs.msg import String
   5 
   6 def talker():
   7     pub = rospy.Publisher('chatter', String, queue_size=10)
   8     rospy.init_node('talker', anonymous=True)
   9     rate = rospy.Rate(10) # 10hz
  10     while not rospy.is_shutdown():
  11         hello_str = "hello world %s" % rospy.get_time()
  12         rospy.loginfo(hello_str)
  13         pub.publish(hello_str)
  14         rate.sleep()
  15 
  16 if __name__ == '__main__':
  17     try:
  18         talker()
  19     except rospy.ROSInterruptException:
  20         pass