Comments on: IronPython and ESRI ArcGIS

By: ArcGIS Jungle of Programming Languages « Adventures in GIS

ArcGIS Jungle of Programming Languages « Adventures in GIS — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:29:45 +0000

[...] the tool to do it all. I ordered a book on Iron Python the other day and then actually sawÂ post on James Fee’s blog about Iron Python & ArcGIS. I would love to see Python turn into the ultimate super-glue language that connects ArcGIS with [...]

By: mdsumner

mdsumner — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:23:45 +0000

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By: TedC

TedC — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:08:26 +0000

I would try the community version of Ipy. IPy works with Moonlight (Silverlight on Mono) as well. If you want to go with just the gp, then try ironclad (google code), but of course this is Cpy, and not Ipy.

By: Eric Wolf

Eric Wolf — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:32:41 +0000

James – I was just thinking the same thing – especially as ESRI phases out the VBA scripting environment. One of the sore spots of working with ArcGIS is that they use three different languages depending on whether you were extending the ArcMap environment (VBA), automating geoprocessing (Python) or doing real GIS programming leveraging ArcObjects (typically C#).

As for Michalis’ comment, the problem isn’t IronPython, it’s ESRI having drunk so deeply of the Microsoft KoolAid in the 90s. Moving the core Arc/Info code from Unix commands to COM objects was a good way to get away from *nix and onto “the mainstream platform”. Too bad the Microsoft KoolAid is basically incompatible with anything else.

By: Michalis Avraam

Michalis Avraam — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:44:07 +0000

How would that work with their non-Windows offerings though? If I am not mistaken, IronPython cannot be run on *nix platforms. Perhaps jython could be a solution though? Similar to IronPython, but built on the Java platform. Does anyone have any experience doing that?

By: JamesC

JamesC — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:43:26 +0000

Those in Birmingham UK for EuroPython 2009 in a couple of weeks time can get more info in a talk from Alex Willmer on just this

http://www.europython.eu/talks/talk_abstracts/index.html#talk8

I`m excited – actual GIS at a python conference

By: JW

JW — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:38:43 +0000

I’d like to see more emphasis on IronPython too…to the point of official ESRI support.

By: ChrisW

ChrisW — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:50:41 +0000

Interested you should say that, Bill. I tried IronPython with Manifold on .NET and couldn’t get it to work either. But I’m no .NET-head and usually avoid MS tools like the plague, so what do I know?

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:13:30 +0000

I’m glad to see that the ESRI interop assemblies are going to be working in newer versions of IronPython. I investigated this a few months back and there was nothing I could do to get ArcObjects and python playing together in any form – the .NET interop assemblies didn’t play with IronPython, and COM did not play well with win32com either.