PythonWin -vs- Idle
Hello, Python newbie here. I am working with Python and geoprocessing in ArcGIS. I'm taking a training course online and the exercise I'm working on makes mention of using PythonWin instead of Idle. I am using version 2.5 and have not been able to locate PythonWin. The download just includes Idle for the environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction to download the PythonWin piece of this puzzle? Thank you _ It’s the same Hotmail®. If by “same” you mean up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Same_022009-- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PythonWin -vs- Idle
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Gary Schells gsche...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Python newbie here. I am working with Python and geoprocessing in ArcGIS. I'm taking a training course online and the exercise I'm working on makes mention of using PythonWin instead of Idle. I am using version 2.5 and have not been able to locate PythonWin. The download just includes Idle for the environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction to download the PythonWin piece of this puzzle? Seems to be included in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ Cheers, Chris -- Follow the path of the Iguana... http://rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PythonWin -vs- Idle
Chris Rebert wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Gary Schells gsche...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, Python newbie here. I am working with Python and geoprocessing in ArcGIS. I'm taking a training course online and the exercise I'm working on makes mention of using PythonWin instead of Idle. I am using version 2.5 and have not been able to locate PythonWin. The download just includes Idle for the environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction to download the PythonWin piece of this puzzle? Seems to be included in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ And it's well worth getting, since it's the recommended programming environment for ArcGIS. IIRC it uses the COM server capabilities to achieve some of the required magic. regards Steve -- Steve Holden+1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PythonWin -vs- Idle
On Feb 27, 8:40 am, Chris Rebert c...@rebertia.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Gary Schells gsche...@hotmail.com wrote: I am using version 2.5 and have not been able to locate PythonWin. The download just includes Idle for the environment. Can anyone point me in the right direction to download the PythonWin piece of this puzzle? Seems to be included in http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/ It's also bundled with ActiveState's ActivePython: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: PythonWin -vs- Idle
On 27 Feb, 01:40, Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Gary Schells gsche...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Python newbie here. I am working with Python and geoprocessing in ArcGIS.
I'm taking a training course online and the exercise I'm working on makes
mention of using PythonWin instead of Idle.
I am using version 2.5 and have not been able to locate PythonWin. The
download just includes Idle for the environment. Can anyone point me in
the
right direction to download the PythonWin piece of this puzzle?
Seems to be included inhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
And it's well worth getting, since it's the recommended programming
environment for ArcGIS. IIRC it uses the COM server capabilities to
achieve some of the required magic.
It's the recommended programming environment in ESRI's geoprocessing
classes.
The only stuff that is specific to PythonWin is the debugging, (which
you can
do in IDLE too, just in a slightly different way).
Personally I do most of my python hacking in emacs, both when my code
calls
arcgisscripting and otherwise. Sometimes I use IDLE, since in emacs
(and PythonWin)
I miss the ability to restart the interpreter process to get a clean
environment.
There is one thing I use the pywin32 library for, and that is a little
hack to
get around the issue that each version of ArcGIS is bound to a
specific python version:
try:
import arcgisscripting
except ImportError:
import win32com.client
class arcgisscripting(object):
@staticmethod
def create():
return win32com.client.Dispatch
('esriGeoprocessing.GpDispatch.1')
With this little code snippet in a utility module, I can use python
2.6 with ArcGIS, and I can test my scritps with python 2.4, to ensure
that they run in ArcGIS 9.2 environments.
/Niklas Norrthon
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Re: win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle
On Jul 31, 11:22 pm, Roger Upole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine. The same goes other things like SeriesCollection()/ seriescollection(1),seriescollection(2)..., Close()/close Is there any way to fix it such that IDLE works with ChartObject() too? I'd really like to be able to use ChartObject().Count() (there doesn't seem to be an equivalent chartobject.count) Thanks. This was probably due to a conflict with the way IDLE sets the locale. Bug report here:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2006053grou... This is fixed in build 212, just released today. Roger- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for the tip Roger. Installed 212 and it worked right away! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle
sterling wrote: I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine. I can't speak for IDLE vs PythonWin but in general case-sensitivity of win32com stuff is related to early vs late Dispatch. If you've explicitly generated proxy modules for the Excel objects (via makepy, EnsureDispatch or whatever) then those are Python modules with case-sensitivity. If you're using dynamic dispatch then Python is simply passing your attribute name along to COM, which isn't case-sensitive, so either case will work. Not sure why IDLE vs PythonWin should make a difference here, but maybe the above explanation sheds some light... TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle
On Jul 31, 4:28 am, Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sterling wrote: I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine. I can't speak for IDLE vs PythonWin but in general case-sensitivity of win32com stuff is related to early vs late Dispatch. If you've explicitly generated proxy modules for the Excel objects (via makepy, EnsureDispatch or whatever) then those are Python modules with case-sensitivity. If you're using dynamic dispatch then Python is simply passing your attribute name along to COM, which isn't case-sensitive, so either case will work. Not sure why IDLE vs PythonWin should make a difference here, but maybe the above explanation sheds some light... TJG Thanks Tim. I'm wondering if it's an OS issues with Vista (I'm strangly ashamed to admit that both my laptop and main computer are running it). I decided to try the same code on my main computer (do most of my work on my laptop) and the exact same thing has happened: I can run it in pythonwin and not idle. I found that I can't even run Open (I must have been running open() previously): i.e. import win32com.client ex = win32com.client.Dispatch(Excel.Application) wb = ex.Workbooks.Open(C:\Temp\SalesChart.xls) Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#2, line 1, in module wb = ex.Workbooks.Open(C:\Temp\SalesChart.xlsx) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py, line 467, in __getattr__ if self._olerepr_.mapFuncs.has_key(attr): return self._make_method_(attr) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py, line 295, in _make_method_ methodCodeList = self._olerepr_.MakeFuncMethod(self._olerepr_.mapFuncs[name], methodName,0) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py, line 297, in MakeFuncMethod return self.MakeDispatchFuncMethod(entry, name, bMakeClass) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py, line 318, in MakeDispatchFuncMethod s = linePrefix + 'def ' + name + '(self' + BuildCallList(fdesc, names, defNamedOptArg, defNamedNotOptArg, defUnnamedArg, defOutArg) + '):' File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py, line 604, in BuildCallList argName = MakePublicAttributeName(argName) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py, line 542, in MakePublicAttributeName return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className) File C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\win32com\client\build.py, line 542, in lambda return filter( lambda char: char in valid_identifier_chars, className) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x83 in position 52: ordinal not in range(128) but the exact same code works in PythonWin. Perhaps I will just find a way to code everything I want in the older lowercase. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle
sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine. The same goes other things like SeriesCollection()/ seriescollection(1),seriescollection(2)..., Close()/close Is there any way to fix it such that IDLE works with ChartObject() too? I'd really like to be able to use ChartObject().Count() (there doesn't seem to be an equivalent chartobject.count) Thanks. This was probably due to a conflict with the way IDLE sets the locale. Bug report here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=2006053group_id=78018atid=551954 This is fixed in build 212, just released today. Roger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
win32com ChartObject pythonwin vs idle
I'm curious as to why the difference between IDLE and pythonWin when using win32com. opening an excel file, i've attempted to grab the chart information out of the file. commands like co = ChartObjects(1) works in pythonWin but doesn't work in IDLE. however, on both co = chartobjects(1) works just fine. The same goes other things like SeriesCollection()/ seriescollection(1),seriescollection(2)..., Close()/close Is there any way to fix it such that IDLE works with ChartObject() too? I'd really like to be able to use ChartObject().Count() (there doesn't seem to be an equivalent chartobject.count) Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
