Latest Contributions by ShaunWalbridge

@PhilipOrlandoUnfortunately, a change in the packaging specifications used by conda-forge made Pro 2.7 and earlier unable to download packages from its channel. The new package specification requires conda 4.4 or newer. Pro 2.8 does include Conda 4.9.2 and can be used with conda-forge, or you can install a separate miniconda installation and activate your environment using it to add packages from conda-forge. Cheers, Shaun ... View more

@Brian_Wilsonthank you for your ArcGIS idea contribution. If working in a custom conda environment, you can remove packages that have been added. But we don't allow users to remove packages that are either required by Geoprocessing tools or other components that are included in Pro, to prevent situations where functionality breaks and the cause is non-obvious to the user. If you want to have environments which are fully customizable, as you mention in your follow-up comment, the command line is the best place to work. Conda is primarily a developer focused tool, and most of its ecosystem is built around command-line use-cases. You may also find that instead of doing cloning, you can take advantage of the standalone ArcPy package. You can create an environment with it using `conda create --name arcpy arcpy` and it will install an environment that can be manipulated freely but still able to import ArcPy. ... View more

Could you provide some context to what you'd like to see in terms of making a new environment? The Python environment creation is geared around making Pro-compatible environments as most users later expect to use them with Pro. Are you interested in making environments that aren't connected to Pro and contain an arbitrary set of packages? If so, you may also be interested in Anaconda Navigator. ... View more

@KoryKramerOK posted it as under consideration on the public issue as well. ... View more

Working with pathlib paths is a much nicer experience than plain strings and os.path anipulations. We are considering this work, but do estimate this to be a larger change, because of the number of different places that we currently explicitly pass only strings and expect the objects to be strings without further inspection. ... View more

I agree that working with pathlib paths is a much nicer experience than plain strings and os.path anipulations. We are considering this work, and I will link to this in our internal issue, Python #1795. We estimate this to be a larger change, because of the number of different places that we currently explicitly pass only strings and expect the objects to be strings without further inspection. I think it also begs the question of getting pathlib objects back out where available, which is another level to this.     ... View more

Dan, We will be addressing the need to have these standard Jupyter Notebook elements back in the notebook interface -- but as you mentioned, the underlying code is already present (nbconvert), as is Jupyterlab for folks who want to use that in a standalone interface. Cheers, Shaun ... View more

Ian Berdanier‌, can you describe what specifically you'd like to see with this? By default, 10.x will create a new C:\Python27\ArcGIS10.x directory so as not to compete with the top-level C:\Python27 directory. Because of how Python is implemented in 10.x and the workflows that would break by moving to an isolated model, there are no plans to modify the Python installation. You can, however, use virtualenv and similar tools to allow environment isolation, or use Anaconda and link into your 10.x Python environment. Cheers, Shaun ... View more

Dan, I think you're right to try reimaging the machine -- the specific errors you're getting I don't see direct references to, but I think they're part of a very low level library used for accessing archives. For Visual Studio Code, set your pythonPath value to the location of the conda environment -- C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3 for the default environment, or the full path to your cloned environment. Cheers, Shaun ... View more

Hello Tauhid, How is Pro licensed? Could you also retry this workflow after upgrading to ArcGIS Pro 2.5? Thanks, Shaun ... View more

You should be able to use any font which contains the full set of emoji characters you're using. I'm not sure why font substitution isn't happening to find the emoji characters for your other font choices, that may be a bug, but I'm not a labeling expert (I can ask around if this is something you'd like to know more about). The other option is that you use marker symbols for the elements you're looking for -- both SVG and gITF are supported input formats:   Marker symbol layers—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation  For SVG for example, there are many open source collections of emoji symbols as SVG files. See for example some of the collections listed on this page:   Emoji - Wikimedia Commons  You could then download e.g. Twitters' twemoji set, and pull out the individual SVG files you need for each type, and use that for your symbols. This will give you some greater control than just using the Windows text renderer to select the emoji, though does take a few more steps. ... View more

Likely its too late for 2.5 now, but you can find out about beta testing opportunities through this page:   Early Adopter Community | Esri Early Adopter Program  ... View more