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ArcGIS Pro

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ArcGIS Pro Ensure Minimum Version in Python

Functionality is continually added to ArcGIS Pro. When creating Python scripts taking advantage of new functionality, it is helpful to be able to check the version to either use an alternative method, or at least provide an error message informing the end user of needing to upgrade. Fortunately, ArcPy provides

ArcPy Describe <dot> Properties

A tremendous amount of information is available through arcpy.Describe. Until ArcGIS Pro 2.8 though, figuring out what properties were available for the object you had just described required digging into the documentation pretty deep. Now, it is much easier to access these properties introspectively as a dictionary. Since

Conda and ArcGIS Pro 2.7

Conda and ArcGIS Pro 2.7

For those of us who regularly work with Python and ArcGIS, especially for data science, life just got a lot easier with ArcGIS Pro 2.7. Now, arcpy can be installed just like any other Conda package. This means ArcGIS Pro now can coexist on the same machine and play nicely with Conda.

Cloning ArcGIS Conda Environments

ArcGIS Pro, when initially released, included an incredibly powerful capability, the included Python environment is a Conda environment. This unlocks the extremely powerful and vast universe of installable packages available through Conda. Further, using Conda environments enables ensuring a project can be successfully moved to another machine, and successfully run

Relative Module Imports in an ArcGIS Python Toolbox

The idea of ArcGIS Python toolboxes really appeals to me. I really like them. As is frequently the case in life, the devil is in the details. Python Toolboxes have plenty of interesting personality quirks. Among these is relative module imports when creating Python Toolboxes for ArcGIS Pro. Here is

ArcGIS Pro + Conda + Jupyter Notebook + ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS Pro + Conda + Jupyter Notebook + ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS Pro, like it's predecessor ArcMap, installs Python tightly integrated with the software. ArcGIS Pro 1.4 installs Python 3.5 complete with the Conda package management system [https://conda.io/docs/index.html]. The environment ArcGIS Pro uses is actually even a Conda environment named arcgispro-py3. This means it

ArcGIS + Python + Jupyter Notebook = Win!

ArcGIS + Python + Jupyter Notebook = Win!

One of my favorite tools when working with Python and exploring how things work is Jupyter Notebook [http://jupyter.org/]. Jupyter Notebook however, is not included with the ArcGIS installation of Python. Until the 1.3 release of ArcGIS Pro, there really was no practical way to install packages to

Getting Started with Conda and ArcGIS Pro 1.3

Python is an incredible tool for streamlining workflows and doing analysis with ArcGIS. However, until now it was frustratingly difficult, or practically impossible to take advantage of the plethora of packages available to streamline workflows, and make life much easier for scripting. With ArcGIS Pro 1.3 comes the ability

Python IDE Configuration with ArcGIS Pro 1.3

In previous versions of ArcGIS Pro, 1.2 and earlier, to use arcpy, the ArcGIS module for Python, in external scripts, you had to perform a secondary installation. A really handy feature of ArcGIS Pro is autoupdating. When prompted to update Pro from version 1.2 to 1.3, I