Simple header publisher

publisher_test.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on 03/12/14

@author: Sam Pfeiffer

A simple publisher of Header messages
with seq numbers increasing.

"""
import rospy

from std_msgs.msg import Header

if __name__=="__main__":
    rospy.init_node('test_topic_queue_')
    pub = rospy.Publisher('/header_test', Header, queue_size=1)
    
    seq_num = 1
    while not rospy.is_shutdown():
        h = Header()
        h.seq = seq_num
        pub.publish(h)
        rospy.loginfo("Published: " + str(h.seq))
        seq_num += 1
        rospy.sleep(0.001)
# rostopic hz /header_test 
# subscribed to [/header_test]
# average rate: 517.697