Trouble accessing ArcPy in script outside of ArcGIS Pro

SolanaFoo2

I'm having no luck calling arcpy from a script that uses ArcGIS API for Python as well.

I've added every single path I can think of to the PYTHONPATH and path environment variables.  No luck.  Runs fine with ArcPy and imports arcgis fine as well when run in a Script tool in Pro, or in a Notebook from Pro. 

Doesn't run in a Notebook outside of Pro, or called in a bat file where the exe used is here: \Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe 

Here's the err (I've also seen no _base.py err):

E:\START\CalFire2020_New\PythonScripts\AGOL_Management>"D:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe" E:\START\CalFire2020_New\PythonScripts\AGOL_Management\GroupExport.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\AGOL_Management\GroupExport.py",
line 12, in <module>
    import arcpy
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.6\arcpy\arcpy\__init__.py", line
 22, in <module>
    from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp
ImportError: cannot import name 'gp'

danretired

You mention ArcGIS Pro, but the executable is for python 2.7 which is for arcmap. Which means that you don't have the correct environment activated.

For jupyterlab I use a desktop shortcut to set everything up

# Target 
C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe "C:\arc_pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Scripts\jupyter-lab-script.py"
# Start in
C:\Arc_projects\JupyterNoteBooks
# ---- NOTE \arc_pro\ is the ArcGIS Pro installation folder
# ----- For jupyter notebook
# Target
C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe "C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook-script.py"