Work Around for os.startfile Crashing arcmap

BenjaminMittler

Hi All,

I'm currently attempting to develop an addin that creates a KML from a layer within arcmap, and then opens that KML. All seems to be going well except that every time the tool runs it crashes arcmap. I am aware that this is because i am using the "os.startfile()" command. What possible workaround can i use to get this file to open at the end of my script.

Thanks,

Ben

*Not a python expert by any means

KevinBell

Jason Schriener at ESRI got this work around for me.

Add this def:

def run_in_other_thread(function): #conflicts w/ os.startfile will crash arcmap.  this is a workaround

    # functool.wraps will copy over the docstring and some other metadata

    # from the original function

    @functools.wraps(function)

    def fn_(*args, **kwargs):

        thread = threading.Thread(target=function, args=args, kwargs=kwargs)

        thread.start()

        thread.join()

    return fn_

Call it like this:

startfile = run_in_other_thread(os.startfile)

startfile(theFilePath)