Latest Contributions by Luke_Pinner

Q: Are admin permissions required to install conda packages? A: If you have an "all users" install of ArcGIS Pro, the default install location is within the Program Files folder. To make changes to this folder location will require the applications to have elevated (admin) credentials. And since the Python environments is stored within the ArcGIS Pro application, then yes installing/removing/updating packages as well as creating and deleting environments will require elevated credentials. To get elevated credentials (admin privileges) from the Windows Application launcher you can right click on Command Prompt, or Python Command Prompt and choose Run as Administrator. It's a bit of a pain to use conda environments within an "all users" install without admin rights, but it can be done by using fullpaths > conda info --envs # conda environments: # arcgispro-py3            C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 root                  *  C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python  > conda config --add envs_dirs D:\conda  > conda create -y -p D:\conda\test python=3 etc...  > conda info --envs # conda environments: # arcgispro-py3            C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 test            D:\conda\test root                  *  C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python   > activate test No environment named "test" exists in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs, or is not a valid conda installation directory.  > activate D:\conda\test [test] > ... View more

I agree with Shaun Walbridge​ - you should be able to run the python code directly. More info please. However, you can do something like the following: def runcmd(cmd):     """     A generic subprocess.Popen function to run a command which suppresses consoles on Windows     Luke Pinner 2013     """     if os.name=='nt':         #Windows starts up a console when a subprocess is run from a non-console         #app like pythonw unless we pass it a flag that says not to...         startupinfo=subprocess.STARTUPINFO()         startupinfo.dwFlags |= 1                else:startupinfo=None     proc=subprocess.Popen(cmd, startupinfo=startupinfo,                           stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,                           stdin=subprocess.PIPE)     if os.name=='nt':proc.stdin.close()     stdout,stderr=proc.communicate()     exit_code=proc.wait()     return exit_code, stdout, stderr ... View more

There are only two possibilities: If you don't have advanced or standard licenses available, you can't use the ImportXMLWorkspaceDocument  tool. If the tool is running outside of ArcGIS, then you do have advanced or standard licenses available. You may be having trouble switching from a basic to a standard or advanced license. ... View more

It's linked to in a post above - arcgis desktop - Appending polygon feature classes with already repaired geometry => WARNING 000442: self intersections … ... View more

Dan, I agree with you re. ease of using external editors with arcpy. I think the OPs complaint was more about not being able to control a running application/map doc from python.  Which to my mind is more in the realm of arcobjects. ... View more

John Bonifas wrote: ...Programmers who are reading this will instantly realize how crummy that is. I as a programmer can imagine how impossible it would be to try to develop scripts in Microsoft Office without the VBA Editor. It has 100% reliable access to *ALL* of the host applications' objects. Does anybody have inside information (Mr. Patterson....?) as to when ArcGIS 10 will have *ROBUST* support for external python editors. This is ridiculous!! Your analogy is poor. The VBA Editor is built in to the host Office application, it is not an external editor.  A better analogy would be to compare the built in ArcGIS python window. This does have access to the current map document.  ... View more

No idea, sorry. I just know that it's not in arcpy 10.2 or 10.3 on our systems. Is there really a need for it (other than to stop breaking existing code)?  arcpy.AddMessage(msg), arcpy.AddError(msg) et. al all print to stdout (stderr?) anyway. ... View more

ArcGIS can read MrSID rasters natively, no extra software required (MrSID Gen 4. as of  ArcGIS 10.1) Have you tried adding them to ArcMap? What happens? What version of ArcGIS are you using? ... View more

You don't need to put everything in a python add-in (unless you want to of course...).  You can still have all the supporting modules in a single folder. How would you prefer to run your script? As a toolbox tool or an addin? ... View more

You can distribute it with your code, i.e as a 'bundle of files'. The directory your script is in is part of the module search path - 6. Modules — Python 2.7.11 documentation So you would have something like: some_dir +-- your_script.py +-- dropbox You can also modify the search path at runtime, i.e with sys.path.append('path/to/folder/dropbox/is/in') ... View more