Trouble accessing ArcPy in script outside of ArcGIS Pro

[SolanaFoo2]

I'm having no luck calling arcpy from a script that uses ArcGIS API for Python as well.

I've added every single path I can think of to the PYTHONPATH and path environment variables.  No luck.  Runs fine with ArcPy and imports arcgis fine as well when run in a Script tool in Pro, or in a Notebook from Pro. 

Doesn't run in a Notebook outside of Pro, or called in a bat file where the exe used is here: D:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe 

Here's the err (I've also seen no _base.py err):

E:\START\CalFire2020_New\PythonScripts\AGOL_Management>"D:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe" E:\START\CalFire2020_New\PythonScripts\AGOL_Management\GroupExport.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\AGOL_Management\GroupExport.py",
line 12, in <module>
    import arcpy
  File "D:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.6\arcpy\arcpy\__init__.py", line
 22, in <module>
    from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp
ImportError: cannot import name 'gp'

[ManishPatel]

Hi @SolanaFoo2 ,

It could possibly be the python environment variable is referencing to a different version.

You can try the following in a bat file

"c:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\scripts\propy.bat" "D:\scriptfile.py"

[SolanaFoo2]

Hi Manish,

What does propy.bat do?

Thanks!

[ManishPatel]

Hi @SolanaFoo2 ,

propy.bat acts as a replacement for calling python.exe

This link will provide you some background info:

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/get-started/using-conda-with-arcgis-pro.htm

[DanPatterson]

What do you get when you run these from sys?  This is my default path structure minus personal ones.

# ---- NOTE : replace C:\\arc_pro with your installation path
sys.executable
'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\python.exe'

sys.path
['C:\\arc_pro\\Resources\\ArcPy',
 ...snip...,
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\DLLs',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3',
 '',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\Resources\\ArcToolbox\\Scripts',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\future-0.18.2-py3.7.egg',
'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\pytz-2020.1-py3.7.egg',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\pywin32_ctypes-0.2.0-py3.7.egg',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\pywin32security',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\sympy-1.5.1-py3.7.egg',
 'C:\\arc_pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\lib\\site-packages\\IPython\\extensions',
]

[SolanaFoo2]

Hi Dan!  

From the cmd prompt:

>>> sys.executable
'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\python.exe'

>>> sys.path
['', 'C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin\\Python', 'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6
', 'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\Scripts', 'D:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Des
ktop10.6\\arcpy', 'D:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.6\\bin', 'D:\\Prog
ram Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin', 'D:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\Resources\\ArcPy\
\arcpy', 'D:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\Resources\\ArcPy', 'D:\\Program Files\
\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3', 'C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro
\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3\\Lib', 'C:\\Windows\\SYSTEM32\\python27.zip',
'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\DLLs', 'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\lib', 'D:\\P
ython27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\lib\\plat-win', 'D:\\Python27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\lib\\lib-t
k', 'C:\\Users\\####\\AppData\\Roaming\\Python\\Python27\\site-packages', 'D:\\P
ython27\\ArcGISx6410.6\\lib\\site-packages', 'D:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Server\
\bin', 'D:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Server\\ArcPy', 'D:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\S
erver\\ArcToolBox\\Scripts']

However, trying to run as a batch file like this:

"D:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe" E:\START\CalFire2020_New\PythonScripts\AGOL_Management\GroupExport.py

Thanks for the response!

[DanPatterson]

You mention ArcGIS Pro, but the executable is for python 2.7 which is for arcmap. Which means that you don't have the correct environment activated.

For jupyterlab I use a desktop shortcut to set everything up

# Target 
C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe "C:\arc_pro\bin\python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Scripts\jupyter-lab-script.py"
# Start in
C:\Arc_projects\JupyterNoteBooks
# ---- NOTE \arc_pro\ is the ArcGIS Pro installation folder
# ----- For jupyter notebook
# Target
C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe "C:\arc_pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Scripts\jupyter-notebook-script.py"