We can manage modes by starting and stopping our behavior scripts as subprocesses. The mode manager will have a configuration for our known modes.
Let's start a file called robot_modes.py. This will contain a class called RobotModes that will handle robot processes and return a list of known scripts. Let's start with some imports and the top of the class definition:
import subprocessclass RobotModes(object): """Our robot behaviors and tests as running modes""" ...
The first thing we will provide is a configuration. The configuration comes in two sections; one maps a mode name to a file—a Python file. Note that we are specifying a list of files, and not inferring it. Although we could take our mode/path section and add ...
