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Hello,
I'm working on setting up an environment that can work with Spyder 5 and ArcGIS Pro. I'm on a fresh installation of 3.0. I have cloned the default environment in the new Package Manager, and it is named arcgispro-spy5. I created this clone so I can install Spyder in the cloned environment. When I attempt to import arcpy, I get this error:
(arcgispro-spy5) C:\Users\phwh9568\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-spy5>python
Python 3.9.13 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, May 27 2022, 16:50:36) [MSC v.1929 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import arcpy
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 77, in <module>
from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
from ._base import *
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 14, in <module>
import arcgisscripting
File "C:\Users\phwh9568\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-spy5\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py", line 131, in <module>
from ._arcgisscripting import *
ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _arcgisscripting: The specified module could not be found.
I get this whether I do it in the command prompt or from Spyder. But, if I switch the environment in my command prompt back to the default arcgispro-py3 environment, I'm able to import arcpy just fine.
What is going on here? Does anyone have guidance on how to correct this?
Thanks,
Phil
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Yep, conda-forge is the likely culprit, I've had similar issues before with arcgispro-py3 clones.
conda config --remove channels conda-forgeThen re-create your clone.
When I need to create a conda env with conda-forge packages, I just set the channel on the command-line
conda create -c conda-forge -n mynewenv packages that I want
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conda-forge packages could be the problem.
I would also check to ensure that spyder isn't installed in the base/arcgis-pro3 environment.
I would uninstall spyder from whatever environment you did install it in and install it in the clone from the conda defaults channel even if it isn't (for whatever reason) the latest.
If you want to install it in the arcgis pro environment and not a clone, do what I do
>>> conda install spyder --no-pin
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Can you share the output of `conda list` on the environment? This is the kind of error that is typical when the installed ArcPy build differs from what is present in the environment, but other things can also cause it depending on the contents of the environment. As Dan mentions, conda-forge packages can be an issue as they do not share a common ABI with the defaults and Esri packages, and for example the Python interpreter used is from conda-forge.
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Hello Shaun,
Sure:
(arcgispro-spy5) C:\Users\phwh9568\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-spy5>conda list
# packages in environment at C:\Users\phwh9568\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-spy5:
#
# Name Version Build Channel
alabaster 0.7.12 py_0 conda-forge
appdirs 1.4.4 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
arcgis 2.0.1 py39_2825 esri
arcgispro 3.0 0 esri
arcpy 3.0 py39_arcgispro_36045 [arcgispro] esri
arrow 1.2.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
arrow-cpp 1.0.1 10 esri
asn1crypto 1.5.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
astroid 2.5.3 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
asttokens 2.0.5 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
atomicwrites 1.4.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
attrs 22.1.0 pyh71513ae_1 conda-forge
autopep8 1.6.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
azure-core 1.12.0 py_0 esri
azure-storage-blob 12.8.0 py_0 esri
babel 2.10.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
backcall 0.2.0 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
backports 1.0 py_2 conda-forge
backports.functools_lru_cache 1.6.4 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
bcrypt 3.2.2 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
binaryornot 0.4.4 py_1 conda-forge
black 22.6.0 py39hcbf5309_2 conda-forge
blas 1.0 mkl
bleach 5.0.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
blinker 1.4 py39haa95532_0
bottleneck 1.3.4 py39h080aedc_0
brotlipy 0.7.0 py39hb82d6ee_1004 conda-forge
bzip2 1.0.8 h8ffe710_4 conda-forge
ca-certificates 2022.6.15 h5b45459_0 conda-forge
cached-property 1.5.2 py_0
cachetools 4.2.2 pyhd3eb1b0_0
certifi 2022.6.15 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
cffi 1.15.1 py39h0878f49_0 conda-forge
cftime 1.5.0 py39_1 esri
chardet 5.0.0 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
charset-normalizer 2.1.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
click 8.1.3 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
cloudpickle 2.1.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
colorama 0.4.5 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
cookiecutter 2.1.1 pyh6c4a22f_0 conda-forge
cppzmq 4.4.1 4 esri
cryptography 37.0.4 py39h7bc7c5c_0 conda-forge
cycler 0.11.0 pyhd3eb1b0_0
decorator 5.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
defusedxml 0.7.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
despatch 0.2.0 py39_0 esri
diff-match-patch 20200713 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
docutils 0.19 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
entrypoints 0.4 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
et_xmlfile 1.1.0 py39haa95532_0
executing 0.9.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
fastcache 1.1.0 py39h196d8e1_0
flake8 3.9.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
freetype 2.12.1 0 esri
future 0.18.2 py39hcbf5309_5 conda-forge
gdal 3.4.0 arcgispro_py39_17119 [arcgispro] esri
geomet 0.3.0 py_1 esri
h5py 3.6.0 py39_4 esri
html5lib 1.1 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
icc_rt 2019.0.5 arcgispro_0 [arcgispro] esri
icu 69.1 h0e60522_0 conda-forge
idna 3.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
imagesize 1.4.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
importlib-metadata 4.11.4 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
importlib_metadata 4.11.4 hd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
importlib_resources 5.9.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
inflection 0.5.1 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
iniconfig 1.1.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0
intel-openmp 2020.0 arcgispro_166 [arcgispro] esri
intervaltree 3.0.2 py_0 conda-forge
ipykernel 5.5.5 py39h832f523_0 conda-forge
ipython 8.4.0 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
ipython_genutils 0.2.0 py_1 conda-forge
ipywidgets 7.6.5 py_0 esri
isodate 0.6.0 py_0 esri
isort 5.10.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
jdcal 1.4.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0
jedi 0.18.1 pyhd8ed1ab_2 conda-forge
jinja2 3.1.2 pyhd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
jinja2-time 0.2.0 pyhd8ed1ab_3 conda-forge
jpeg 9e h8ffe710_2 conda-forge
json5 0.9.5 py_0 esri
jsonschema 4.9.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
jupyter_client 6.1.12 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
jupyter_console 6.4.0 py_1 esri
jupyter_contrib_core 0.3.3 py_4 esri
jupyter_contrib_nbextensions 0.5.1 py_24 esri
jupyter_core 4.11.1 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
jupyter_highlight_selected_word 0.2.0 py_4 esri
jupyter_latex_envs 1.4.6 py_3 esri
jupyter_nbextensions_configurator 0.4.1 py_3 esri
jupyterlab 2.2.10 py_0 esri
jupyterlab_server 1.2.0 py_0
jupyterlab_widgets 1.0.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1
keyring 23.8.2 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
kiwisolver 1.3.2 py39hd77b12b_0
lazy-object-proxy 1.7.1 py39hb82d6ee_1 conda-forge
lerc 3.0 pyh39e3cac_0 esri
libclang 13.0.1 default_h81446c8_0 conda-forge
libdeflate 1.8 h2bbff1b_5
libffi 3.4.2 h8ffe710_5 conda-forge
libiconv 1.16 he774522_0 conda-forge
libpng 1.6.37 h1d00b33_3 conda-forge
libprotobuf 3.19.1 h23ce68f_0
libsodium 1.0.18 h8d14728_1 conda-forge
libspatialindex 1.9.3 h39d44d4_4 conda-forge
libtiff 4.3.0 1 esri
libxml2 2.9.14 hf5bbc77_3 conda-forge
libxslt 1.1.35 h34f844d_0 conda-forge
libzlib 1.2.12 h8ffe710_2 conda-forge
lxml 4.9.1 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
lz4-c 1.9.3 h2bbff1b_1
markupsafe 2.1.1 py39hb82d6ee_1 conda-forge
matplotlib 3.4.3 py39_arcgispro_4 [arcgispro] esri
matplotlib-base 3.4.3 py39_arcgispro_4 [arcgispro] esri
matplotlib-inline 0.1.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
mccabe 0.6.1 py_1 conda-forge
mistune 0.8.4 py39hb82d6ee_1005 conda-forge
mkl 2020.0 arcgispro_167 [arcgispro] esri
mkl-service 2.3.0 py39_2 esri
mkl_fft 1.3.0 py39_0 esri
mkl_random 1.2.2 py39_0 esri
mpmath 1.2.1 py39haa95532_0
msrest 0.6.21 py_0 esri
mypy_extensions 0.4.3 py39hcbf5309_5 conda-forge
nbconvert 5.6.1 pyhd8ed1ab_2 conda-forge
nbformat 5.4.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
netcdf4 1.5.7 py39_arcgispro_3 [arcgispro] esri
networkx 2.7.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0
nlohmann_json 3.7.0 2 esri
nose 1.3.7 pyhd3eb1b0_1008
notebook 5.7.10 py39_1 esri
ntlm-auth 1.4.0 py_0 esri
numexpr 2.8.1 py39_0 esri
numpy 1.20.1 py39_0 esri
numpy-base 1.20.1 py39_0 esri
numpydoc 1.4.0 pyhd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
oauthlib 3.2.0 py39_0 esri
olefile 0.46 pyhd3eb1b0_0
openpyxl 3.0.9 pyhd3eb1b0_0
openssl 1.1.1q h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
packaging 21.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pandas 1.3.5 py39h6214cd6_0
pandocfilters 1.5.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
paramiko 2.11.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
parso 0.8.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pathspec 0.9.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pefile 2019.4.18 py_0
pexpect 4.8.0 pyh9f0ad1d_2 conda-forge
pickleshare 0.7.5 py_1003 conda-forge
pillow 9.1.0 py39_3 esri
pip 22.2.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pkgutil-resolve-name 1.3.10 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
platformdirs 2.5.2 pyhd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
pluggy 0.13.1 py39hcbf5309_4 conda-forge
pro_notebook_integration 3.0 py39_1 esri
prometheus_client 0.8.0 py_0 esri
prompt-toolkit 3.0.30 pyha770c72_0 conda-forge
prompt_toolkit 3.0.30 hd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
protobuf 3.19.1 py39hd77b12b_0
psutil 5.9.1 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
ptyprocess 0.7.0 pyhd3deb0d_0 conda-forge
pure_eval 0.2.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
py 1.11.0 pyh6c4a22f_0 conda-forge
pyarrow 1.0.1 py39_3 esri
pybind11 2.7.1 0 esri
pybind11_json 0.2.6 3 esri
pycodestyle 2.7.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pycparser 2.21 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pydocstyle 6.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pyflakes 2.3.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pygments 2.12.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pyjwt 2.4.0 py_1 esri
pylint 2.7.2 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
pyls-spyder 0.4.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pynacl 1.5.0 py39hb3671d1_1 conda-forge
pyodbc 4.0.32 py39hd77b12b_1
pyopenssl 22.0.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pyparsing 3.0.9 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pypdf2 1.26.0 py_4 esri
pyqt 5.12.3 py39hcbf5309_8 conda-forge
pyqt-impl 5.12.3 py39h415ef7b_8 conda-forge
pyqt5-sip 4.19.18 py39h415ef7b_8 conda-forge
pyqtchart 5.12 py39h415ef7b_8 conda-forge
pyqtwebengine 5.12.1 py39h415ef7b_8 conda-forge
pyrsistent 0.18.1 py39hb82d6ee_1 conda-forge
pyshp 2.1.3 pyhd3eb1b0_0
pysocks 1.7.1 py39hcbf5309_5 conda-forge
pytest 6.2.4 py39_0 esri
python 3.9.13 h9a09f29_0_cpython conda-forge
python-certifi-win32 1.6 py_0 esri
python-dateutil 2.8.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-fastjsonschema 2.16.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-lsp-black 1.1.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-lsp-jsonrpc 1.0.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-lsp-server 1.2.4 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python-slugify 6.1.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
python_abi 3.9 1_cp39 esri
pytoolconfig 1.2.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pytz 2022.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pywin32 303 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
pywin32-ctypes 0.2.0 py39hcbf5309_1005 conda-forge
pywin32-security 302 py39_1 esri
pywinpty 2.0.1 py39_0 esri
pyyaml 6.0 py39hb82d6ee_4 conda-forge
pyzmq 23.2.0 py39he46f08e_0 conda-forge
qdarkstyle 3.0.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
qstylizer 0.2.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
qt 5.12.9 h556501e_6 conda-forge
qtawesome 1.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
qtconsole 5.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
qtpy 2.1.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
regex 2022.7.25 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
requests 2.28.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
requests-kerberos 0.12.0 0 esri
requests-negotiate-sspi 0.5.3 py39_0 esri
requests-oauthlib 1.3.0 py_0
requests-toolbelt 0.9.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0
requests_ntlm 1.1.0 py_0 esri
rope 1.3.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
rtree 1.0.0 py39h09fdee3_1 conda-forge
saspy 3.7.8 py_0 esri
scipy 1.6.2 py39_0 esri
send2trash 1.8.0 pyhd3eb1b0_1
setuptools 63.4.2 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
simplegeneric 0.8.1 py39haa95532_2
six 1.16.0 pyh6c4a22f_0 conda-forge
snowballstemmer 2.2.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
sortedcontainers 2.4.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
sphinx 5.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-applehelp 1.0.2 py_0 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-devhelp 1.0.2 py_0 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp 2.0.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-jsmath 1.0.1 py_0 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-qthelp 1.0.3 py_0 conda-forge
sphinxcontrib-serializinghtml 1.1.5 pyhd8ed1ab_2 conda-forge
spyder 5.1.5 py39hcbf5309_1 conda-forge
spyder-kernels 2.1.3 py39hcbf5309_1 conda-forge
sqlalchemy 1.3.12 py39h196d8e1_0
sqlite 3.39.2 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
stack_data 0.3.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
swat 1.9.3 py39_0 esri
sympy 1.9 py39_1 esri
terminado 0.13.1 py39haa95532_0
testpath 0.6.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
text-unidecode 1.3 py_0 conda-forge
textdistance 4.3.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
three-merge 0.1.1 pyh9f0ad1d_0 conda-forge
tinycss2 1.1.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
tk 8.6.12 h8ffe710_0 conda-forge
toml 0.10.2 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
tomli 2.0.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
tornado 6.2 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
traitlets 5.3.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
typed-ast 1.5.4 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
typing-extensions 4.3.0 hd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
typing_extensions 4.3.0 pyha770c72_0 conda-forge
tzdata 2021e hda174b7_0
ucrt 10.0.20348.0 h57928b3_0 conda-forge
ujson 5.3.0 py39h415ef7b_0 conda-forge
unidecode 1.3.4 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
urllib3 1.26.11 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
vc 14.2 hb210afc_6 conda-forge
vs2015_runtime 14.29.30037 h902a5da_6 conda-forge
watchdog 2.1.9 py39hcbf5309_0 conda-forge
wcwidth 0.2.5 pyh9f0ad1d_2 conda-forge
webencodings 0.5.1 py_1 conda-forge
wheel 0.37.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
widgetsnbextension 3.5.2 py39haa95532_0
win_inet_pton 1.1.0 py39hcbf5309_4 conda-forge
wincertstore 0.2 py39hcbf5309_1008 conda-forge
winkerberos 0.8.0 py39_0 esri
winpty 0.4.3 4
wrapt 1.14.1 py39hb82d6ee_0 conda-forge
x86cpu 0.4 py39_1 esri
xarray 0.20.1 pyhd3eb1b0_1
xeus 0.24.1 8 esri
xeus-python 0.8.2 10 esri
xlrd 2.0.1 pyhd3eb1b0_0
xlwt 1.3.0 py39haa95532_0
xtl 0.6.15 1 esri
xz 5.2.5 h62dcd97_1 conda-forge
yaml 0.2.5 h8ffe710_2 conda-forge
yapf 0.32.0 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
zeromq 4.3.4 h0e60522_1 conda-forge
zipp 3.8.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
zlib 1.2.12 h8ffe710_2 conda-forge
zlib-ng 2.0.5 0 esri
zstd 1.4.9 h19a0ad4_0I appreciate it!
-Phil
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And I'll point out that I installed Spyder 5.1.5. The latest version produces a laundry list of conflicts and eventually fails.
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I have flagged the 5.2.2 version that Anaconda recently posted, it isn't even the correct version.
>>> conda install spyder=5.1.5 --no-pin
is actually what my recent notes show so as not to get the 5.2.2 version.
You cana do a pip install of 5.3.2 if you must, but it is harder to maintain in a conda environment unless you like to tinker
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OK, thanks appreciate it. Somehow this environment has almost all conda-forge packages, which I would expect to fail because of library ABI compatibility issues. If you could, I'd like to see the history file located at:
C:\Users\phwh9568\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\arcgispro-spy5\conda-meta\history
That should make more clear how the environment was set up to get into this state. From my end, I tried installing Spyder into a default clone and that worked, and it also seemed to work with `conda install conda-forge::spyder` so I'm guessing there is something happening with the channel priorities which is impacting how this is getting configured. It is also possible that `conda-forge` is the top priority channel in your `.condarc` file and will force packages to that channel by default.
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Hi Shaun,
Oh, I really appreciate this because I'm learning something new here. Here's the content of my .condarc file:
channels:
- conda-forge
- defaults
ssl_verify: trueSounds like you're onto something? And I have to admit I've not had to tinker with this stuff before.
I attached a text file with the history meta since it's pretty long...
Much appreciated!
Phil
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Yep, conda-forge is the likely culprit, I've had similar issues before with arcgispro-py3 clones.
conda config --remove channels conda-forgeThen re-create your clone.
When I need to create a conda env with conda-forge packages, I just set the channel on the command-line
conda create -c conda-forge -n mynewenv packages that I want- Mark as New
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Big thanks to Shaun and Luke--you all are ALRIGHT!
Removing conda-forge as my priority channel did the trick here. I didn't realize this would get in the way of ESRI environments. So, thanks Shaun, this was educational for me.
conda config --remove channels conda-forgedid the trick as Luke suggested.
So thanks to both of you--and thanks to Dan as well for responding to this and to so many other posts over the years.
-Phil
