File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

AllenDailey1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 19:24:13 GMT

Please help... I have done so many google searches for this and... nothing. Whyyyy?

What is the file/directory location or path of the ArcGIS API for Python, particularly on an ArcGIS Server?

I am having extremely mysterious failure with a standalone script that is trying to use the API to stop services, so I want to find some way to check if the API really exists on this server where I'm running the script.

Thank you!

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

jcarlson — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:15:21 GMT

Try

import arcgis print(arcgis.__file__)

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

Brian_Wilson — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:23:36 GMT

I am using 10.9.1 Server and so https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/10.9.1/develop/windows/scripting-service-publishing-with-arcpy.htm says where python lives and I can do this

'C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat' >>> import arcgis >>> arcgis.__file__ 'C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Server\\framework\\runtime\\ArcGIS\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\arcgis\\__init__.py' >>> arcgis.__version__ '1.9.1'

Other versions of python might live on your server, on mine, there is C:\Python27\ for example, which shows this,

C:\Python27\ArcGISx6410.9\python.exe Python 2.7.18.4 (default, Sep 22 2021, 18:34:14) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import arcgis Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ImportError: No module named arcgis

I assume some ancient creaky Esri installer used python 2 and then it just lives on forever.

You can look at all the places searched for modules,

>>> import sys >>> for p in sys.path: ... print(p) ... C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\Resources\ArcPy C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python37.zip C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\DLLs C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\Resources\ArcToolbox\Scripts C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\future-0.18.2-py3.7.egg C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\pytz-2020.1-py3.7.egg C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py3.7.egg C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\pywin32security C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Server\framework\runtime\ArcGIS\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\sympy-1.5.1-py3.7.egg

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

AllenDailey1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:37:02 GMT

Thank you so much! Whoops, it had not occurred to me to do something like that. It worked!

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

AllenDailey1 — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:38:40 GMT

Thank you for this information!

topic Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python? in ArcGIS API for Python Questions

File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?

Re: File Location of ArcGIS API for Python?