ROS catkin_make 编译出现ImportError: “from catkin_pkg.topological_order import topological_order“

在ROS编译时出现了一个错误：

ImportError: "from catkin_pkg.topological_order import topological_order" failed: No module named 'catkin_pkg'
Make sure that you have installed "catkin_pkg", it is up to date and on the PYTHONPATH.

提示与PYTHONPATH相关，搜索了其他文章https://blog.csdn.net/donghao51/article/details/88146532发现需要在添加Python2.7相关的环境变量，说明catkin依赖2.7版本的Python。

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

回想之前自己使用过update-alternative工具对Python进行过切换，所以自己的处理方式是再使用update-alternative工具切换或Python2.7，而不是添加环境变量，如下：

$ sudo update-alternatives --config python 
There are 2 choices for the alternative python (providing /usr/bin/python).

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/python3.6   2         auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/python2.7   1         manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/python3.6   2         manual mode

Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/python2.7 to provide /usr/bin/python (python) in manual mode

 这样对于自己的问题就解决了。