I'm having this problem as well. Sometimes importing arcpy would exit the entire runtime (with an exit status indicating non-successful exit). No amount of try-except recovery works except to re-run it. So "you can try/except an import statement" didn't work.
Can you share start-to-finish your procedure with scripts and error messages?
The OP literally gave the script and command (C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\proenv.bat) above. He couldn't find any error messages or logs.
Incidentally, what you're describing sounds like a rather odd way to go about this in the first place, but I'm assuming it's a test/proof-of-concept for something else?
I don't understand what you mean here. Is running a standalone script using arcpy supposed to be "odd"? Is arcpy supposed to be only ran in ArcGIS Pro? The only odd thing I find is how importing arcpy is non-deterministic and would sometimes kill the Python runtime. FYI this also happens in the Python REPL, not just running a script:
(base) PS C:\Users\user> C:\Program` Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat
Python 3.9.16 [MSC v.1931 64 bit (AMD64)] :: Anaconda, Inc. on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import arcpy
(base) PS C:\Users\user>
Sometimes, after typing import arcpy, it just exits the REPL.
The following is what I've tried. I was able to find the offending file that was causing this, as well as a stack trace. I hope this will be useful for you.
This is the command I'm running in powershell (the ` is intentional to escape the space in powershell). Some runs exits the script with a failing error code, but the last one has no problems.
(base) PS C:\Users\user> C:\Program` Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat .\test.py
(base) PS C:\Users\user> $?
False
(base) PS C:\Users\user> C:\Program` Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat .\test.py
(base) PS C:\Users\user> $?
False
(base) PS C:\Users\user> C:\Program` Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat .\test.py
imported
(base) PS C:\Users\user> $?
True
test.py has the following code (the first line is commented out when I wanted to run it multiple times). I repeatedly stepped into the import statement using the debugger
breakpoint()
import arcpy
print('imported')
I got to the file
c:\program files\arcgis\pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py
At line 131, there is an import:
from ._arcgisscripting import *
The arcgisscripting folder has files __init__.py, __pycache__, and _arcgisscripting.pyd. so this must be importing from the .pyd file. Unfortunately .pyd is an opaque DLL so I can't investigate any further.
You can get to this part this by running the test.py code above. When in the debugger, (Pdb) will be visible on the left. Type the commands on the right as shown below:
(base) PS C:\Users\user> C:\Program` Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts\propy.bat .\test.py
> c:\users\user\test.py(2)<module>()
-> import arcpy
(Pdb) b c:\program files\arcgis\pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py:
131
Breakpoint 1 at c:\program files\arcgis\pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__in
it__.py:131
(Pdb) c
> c:\program files\arcgis\pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py(131)<m
odule>()
-> from ._arcgisscripting import *
(Pdb)
In the first (Pdb), we add a breakpoint directly to the file. In the second (Pdb), we continue execution of importing arcpy, until it hits the breakpoint. The third (Pdb)is when it hit the breakpoint and stops. You can type s here to jump into the import, but it was fruitless for me, because it seems to be importing from the .pyd file, which is an opaque DLL.
Continuing from the above Pdb session, I can obtain a stack trace:
> c:\program files\arcgis\pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py(131)<m
odule>()
-> from ._arcgisscripting import *
(Pdb) import traceback
(Pdb) traceback.print_stack()
File "C:\Users\user\test.py", line 2, in <module>
import arcpy
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 77, in <module>
from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
from ._base import *
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\Resources\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 14, in <module>
import arcgisscripting
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1007, in _find_and_load
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 986, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 680, in _load_unlocked
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 850, in exec_module
File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 228, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\site-packages\arcgisscripting\__init__.py"
, line 131, in <module>
from ._arcgisscripting import *
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\bdb.py", line 88, in trace_dispatch
return self.dispatch_line(frame)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\bdb.py", line 112, in dispatch_line
self.user_line(frame)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\pdb.py", line 262, in user_line
self.interaction(frame, None)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\pdb.py", line 357, in interaction
self._cmdloop()
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\pdb.py", line 322, in _cmdloop
self.cmdloop()
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\cmd.py", line 138, in cmdloop
stop = self.onecmd(line)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\pdb.py", line 422, in onecmd
return cmd.Cmd.onecmd(self, line)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\cmd.py", line 216, in onecmd
return self.default(line)
File "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\lib\pdb.py", line 381, in default
exec(code, globals, locals)
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
(Pdb)
