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?
Answer
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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