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Has anyone played around with using ArcObjects in Python at version 10.1?

I am having all sorts of problems, such as TypeErrors when wrapping the ESRI OLB modules and AttributeErrors when attempting to use a method or property of a wrapped module.

Anyone had any better luck?

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  • I removed the 10.1 version specific tag because this same error and fix applies to 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (and we don't have a 10.x tag). Also it doesn't need arcgis tag as there aren't any arcobjects without it.
    – matt wilkie
    Commented May 13, 2015 at 21:40

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As of July 2015 release 1.1.2 comtypes has the patch from below applied. :) Install using pip from PyPi or from github:

pip install comtypes

pip install https://github.com/enthought/comtypes/archive/master.zip

There is a fix for this, taken from the ArcGIS Forums: 10.1 beta and comtypes. Edit comtypes module, under PYTHONPATH\lib\site-packages and add the following entry to the _ctype_to_vartype dictionary in automation.py:

POINTER(BSTR): VT_BYREF|VT_BSTR,

You may also need to delete automation.pyc, automation.pyo, safearray.pyc, and safearray.pyo in the same folder.

Also see page 5 of Mark Cederholm's 2012 Dev Summit presentation: ArcMap and Python: Closing the VBA Gap, and in the header of his updated snippets modules for 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 respectively; index page: http://pierssen.com/arcgis10/python.htm

There is a pull request to merge the patch into master comtypes; still open because Enthought (rightly) won't apply patches without accompanying tests.

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  • +1 Unfortunately, this doesn't fix everything, though. calling comtypes.client.GetModule on esriDataSourcesOleDB.olb, esriGlobeCoreUI.olb, and esriSchematicControls.olb still generates attribute errors. Furthermore, the coclasses that should be accessible in esriFramework.olb (such as AppROT), aren't.
    – Matthew Plourde
    Commented Jul 16, 2013 at 19:00
  • Anyone tried this fix for 10.2 with results?
    – Conor
    Commented May 7, 2014 at 15:19
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    Works fine for me with the above fix.
    – blah238
    Commented May 7, 2014 at 15:22
  • Fix above worked for me in 10.2, Thanks @blah238
    – dklassen
    Commented Jul 7, 2014 at 22:46
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    I submitted a pull request to the comtypes project on GitHub: github.com/enthought/comtypes/pull/75. If this fix is applied upstream we won't need to do this anymore.
    – matt wilkie
    Commented Jan 15, 2015 at 20:34
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To gain access to arcobjects (10.1) via python I had to delete automation.pyc, automation.pyo, safearray.pyc and safearray.pyo in the comtypes directory. I also deleted all of the files in the C:\Users\USER_ID\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python27\comtypes_cache and had to change the

ProductList = [esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeArcInfo, esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeArcEditor, esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeArcView]

to [esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeAdvanced, esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeStandard, esriSystem.esriLicenseProductCodeBasic].

The last thing that I did was search the syntax for all “10.0” strings and replaced them with “10.1”.

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