Latest Contributions by MatthewBaker2

Thousands of ESRI Enterprise installs? Well This is not an ESRI enterprise install... so I'm glad I could be the first(-ish)! The non-ESRI python install is more valuable to me than the ESRI python, so merging the ESRI install into the non-ESRI install is the best solution for me, and I'm glad someone has figured out a way to do this! ... View more

Ah a fantastic solution has emerged: Enable Python installations that were not installed by ArcGIS to access Arcpy functionality | Python, GIS and stuff… Copy the Desktop10.1.pth file from the ArcGIS python installation to the standard python installation! See the link above for the quick and easy solution (a few prerequisites... but nothing too complicated...) ... View more

I think my problem here is the ESRI-centric philosophy for running Python... Again, I come at this from the non-ESRI need for python - pypyodbc, psycopg2 - and can run them just fine for many database ETL solutions. But anything involving an ArcGIS python process really messes up the system... I'll keep digging. Thanks for the information! ... View more

Do you have any thoughts on this issue with ArcGIS 10.4(.1) as it relates to your post above? Problem: ArcMap crashes during Loading Document launch stage ... View more

If ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server are installing their own instance, I wouldn't question a third install which probably came first - a standard desktop python installation in c:\python27! My issue has been why does ArcGIS need its own installation of python when - in my case - I have a perfectly good, functioning, and important installation already that uses pypyodbc and psycopg2. So now that I install ArcGIS Desktop, in any configuration of installation directories I can think of, the sys.path variables all get set to the ArcGIS paths - what happened to my existing installation? The issue I'm having is to reset - or at least append to include - the paths to my existing installation so I can run arcpy and pypyodbc and psycopg2 scripts on the same machine - but this seems impossible!!! sys.path.append('path to existing libraries') does not appear to do anything, and other threads on other forums don't help. I feel like I'm caught in a 'ArcCatch22'... and I'd hate to think I would have to set up another machine just to run arcpy scripts? ... View more