I wrote the following code as a wrapper around messages pushed during the running of the script. Using Python IDLE this works fine, but in Eclipse I get the following output:
def ESRIP(gp,message):
"""Prints messages into ArcGIS Script window"""
message = str(message)
gp.AddMessage(message)
return message
print ESRIP(gp, "processing one million points")
Any thoughts on how I can remove the weird text?
I've had the same issue. In those cases where it was really a problem, I just added a print for the message, and commented out the gp.AddMessage while I was testing in Eclipse, then uncommented it when moving it into ArcGIS.
Interestingly the gp.AddMessage works fine when run from the Python command line. Not sure where the extra characters are coming from (maybe AddMessage returns an unescaped string or something). I suspect it comes down to each interface's way of handeling unknown characters - command promt ignores them, IDLE doesn't print the string, and Eclipse tries to print the unknown characters.
