Spatial statistics tools not working

Question

I'm running ArcGIS 9.3.1 w/ service pack 2 on Windows 7 64 bit home edition. When I try to run the tools in the Spatial Statistics toolbox, I get an error message. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the software, with a cleanup in-between, and get the same error. A different thread on here had instructions for capturing the process log. Here's the log for running the nearest neighbor analysis, which errored out: AverageNearestNeighbor_stats la_zip_emp 'Euclidean Distance' true 10000 C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\ArcToolbox\Toolboxes\Spatial Statistics Tools.tbx\Analyzing Patterns\AverageNearestNeighbor Sun May 08 18:38:09 2011 la_zip_emp Euclidean Distance true 10000 0 0 0 C:\Users\PaddleGirl\Desktop\grad school\Geo526\Lab 4\LAemploy_updated\la_zip_emp.shp : Object: Tool or environment not found Failed to execute (AverageNearestNeighbor). Sun May 08 18:38:17 2011 8.00 seconds Any help would be appreciated.

curtvprice · Answer

You said, installed both Python and ArcGIS -- the ArcGIS installer should install Python (and numpy) on its own. If you installed Python separately you will be missing numpy and that will make the geostat tools fail. Do other python scripts work??

ElizabethGould · Answer

Thanks Curtis.  Uninstalled Python and ArcGIS, ran a disk cleanup, reinstalled both w/ a repair, installed service pack 2.....still no luck .  scratching my head on this one.... could this tool set (spatial statistics) be incompatible w/ 64bit???  the tools work fine on the desktop w/ 32bit architecture, but for a variety of reasons i need this work on my (much faster) laptop.

thanks.

curtvprice · Answer

Several people have suggested something with Python, but I don't know where to start with that.  Any help would be appreciated!

It does look like your script is not able to properly create a geoprocessor object. I think the best way to reconnect Python with ArcGIS is to uninstall *all* python related software from add/remove programs, then do a repair install of ArcGIS followed by reinstalling the most recent ArcGIS service packs.  This will ensure you have the right version of Python (2.5.1 32 bit) and that it can talk to ArcGIS.

Good luck!