Arcpy Pro crash when using memory or in_memory

[HarrySmiles]

I updated from ArcGIS Pro 3.0.3 to 3.1 yesterday, and since then any time I try to write anything into "memory" or "in_memory" it causes ArcGIS Pro to crash. 

This is an example of some code, but everything I have tried with memory or in_memory causes the same issue.  

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(input_locations, input_location_layer, f"{input_name_field} = '{location}'")

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(input_location_layer, f"memory\\{location}_facility")

I have tried doing a full uninstall (including deleting all the Pro folders and registry entries), and I've also tried creating a new Python Environment but get the same issue. 

Any ideas?

[DanPatterson]

to test, skip the substitution and use the actual field names and locations

eg dump,  f"{input_name_field} = '{location}'") and this f"memory\\{location}_facility"

[HarrySmiles]

I tried running the code in a notebook outside of the loop with everything hard coded and get the same issue unfortunately.

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(input_locations, 'location_layer_CRAN', "code = 'CRAN'")

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management('location_layer_CRAN', "memory\\CRAN_facility")

I don't know enough about the how the memory or in_memory workspaces work to debug this but I'm now confident they are the issue. I created a tempory filegeodatabase and used that instead of memory and it works.

arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(input_locations, 'location_layer_CRAN', "code = 'CRAN'")

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management('location_layer_CRAN', "c:\\aaa\\temp.gdb\\CRAN_facility")

[Anonymous User]

Try adding a '\' to the memory: "\\memory\\CRAN_facility"

There is another thread on here that memory\\ fails, but \memory\\ works. I'll try to link it for reference.

Edit- Here is the thread.

[HarrySmiles]

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunatley I now get this error:

ERROR 000210: Cannot create output \memory\CRAN_facility

That is using.

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management('location_layer_CRAN', "\\memory\\CRAN_facility")

or

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management('location_layer_CRAN', "\memory\\CRAN_facility")

[Anonymous User]

Man, that is troublesome! How about os.path.join('memory', 'CRAN_facility')?

[Anonymous User]

Try adding the r decorator to the string. These two worked for me, but the "memory\\CRAN_facility" gave me the error that you received.

arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc, r"memory\CRAN_facility")
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(fc, os.path.join("memory", "CRAN_facility2"))

[HarrySmiles]

Same thing I'm afraid. I don't know enough about the underlying mechanism of the memory or in_memory workspaces, but I have a feeling that something has either moved with the upgrade or something got corrupted. 

That said I kind of assumed that a full reinstall would have fixed the issue and it didn't.

I have tried running the code on a colleges computer and it worked on that one, which was also updated Pro to 3.1 yesterday. That tells me it isn't a code issue but an Arcpy or Python issue.

I have also tried cloning the environment but I get the same issue with the clone.

[ShaunWalbridge]

Have you submitted the crash dumps? If you send one to me, I can take a quick look to see if it's anything obvious. Are you using the default `arcgispro-py3` environment, or a custom environment?

[HarrySmiles]

Thanks Shaun.

Our work firewall seems to block sending the dump but here is one.

That was using the default environment, but I have also cloned it and get the same. I did try to create a new environment using conda, then installed the arcpy package. When I try to import arcpy using that environment I got the below error so I gave up on that.

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing _arcgisscripting: The specified module could not be found.