topic Re: arcpy and virtualenv in Python Questions

arcpy and virtualenv

TedCronin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:06:14 GMT

Is arcpy expected to have no problems when running inside virtualenv? Definitely issues with numpy, but graphs as well...

>>> import arcpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 25, i
n <module>
    from arcpy.toolbox import *
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\toolbox.py", line 342, i
n <module>
    from management import Graph, GraphTemplate
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\management.py", line 22,
in <module>
    import _management
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\_management.py", line 14
, in <module>
    import _graph
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\_graph.py", line 27, in
<module>
    import numpy
ImportError: No module named numpy
>>>

Re: arcpy and virtualenv

JasonScheirer — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:47:24 GMT

You're going to have to manually tweak the path files in the virtualenv to point to the correct NumPy path or install it within the Virtualenv when you bootstrap it. Is there a reason you're using virtualenv?

Re: arcpy and virtualenv

TedCronin — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:52:18 GMT

just playing around with other third party modules, but figured I would attempt with arcpy. I have tried to install numpy through pip, but there have been issues, so I will play around with manually trying to get it to work. So, you think that once I get numpy up, I could conceivably run arcpy virtually?

Re: arcpy and virtualenv

JasonScheirer — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:30:04 GMT

No, bare minimum you're going to need an Engine/Desktop/Server install. Arcpy isn't just that directory full of .py files -- it's all of ArcObjects with bindings specific to the version of Python included with the product.

Re: arcpy and virtualenv

TedCronin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:08:59 GMT

sounds like a lot of work for after beta :=)