import arcinfo/SetProduct

[MatthewBrown1]

Hi,

I often use:

import arcinfo
import arcpy

in my Python IDE (see http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.1/index.html#/SetProduct/018v00000009000000/) to save mucking about switching licenses and firing up new sessions of ArcGIS Desktop, but would like to force the return of a floating ARC/INFO license without closing down my Python IDE.

I've tired importing the module as part of a function and this affects the scope of the imports but still hangs on to an ARC/INFO license.

It would be great if there was something like:

arcpy.CheckInProduct("ArcInfo")

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Matt

[Luke_Pinner]

I don't think there's any way of releasing the license without restarting the IDE's python process.

That said... I use an IDE called PyScripter which has a remote debugger. This means it can be restarted (or crashed...) without restarting (or crashing...) the entire IDE.  To restart the remote python process and release a license after running an ArcPy script, right click the python interpreter section of the IDE and select Python Engine->Reinitialize Python Engine. See attached screenshot. Or hit Ctrl+F2.

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[MatthewBrown1]

Thanks for the tip! Works well.

PyScripter looks pretty good.