There may be something I'm missing, but is it possible to use the arcpy module outside arcmap?
My situation is that we have one license on a computer which is shared over a network. I need to do some basic processing and I'd like to do it via python without having to log on to the GIS computer.
Is this possible?
Is it as simple as copying the location of the arcpy module into another instance of python?
Or, can I just direct python to the directory arcpy is living in?
You can direct your .py script or interactive interpreter to the location of your arcpy installation.
This would be achieved using the sys library and an append method on your sys.path
import sys
sys.path.append("path to arcpy")
"path to arcpy" is usually:
"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ArcGIS\\Desktop10.0\\arcpy"
However, I am not familiar with accessing this location from another computer. Someone may want to chime in and edit this answer.
More information here: http://docs.python.org/install/index.html#modifying-python-s-search-path
