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Useful Python Libraries

Ghislain Prince
This presentation

- Standard libraries
- “batteries included”

- 3rd party libs


Regarding python 3

• docs.python.org/2/library/2to3.html

• “Analyze tools for Pro” tool

• Future : pick you python (Conda)


Standard Library is Large, powerful and Well-Documented

• docs.python.org
• Installed with ArcGIS
3rd Party Library

• Not part of standard library


• Pypi – the Python Package Index
- 60,000+ packages
- https://pypi.python.org/pypi
- pip

• C:\>c:\Python27\ArcGIS10.3\Scripts\pip.exe install requests


• Downloading requests-2.7.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (470kB)
• 100% |################################| 471kB 718kB/s
• Installing collected packages: requests
• Successfully installed requests-2.7.0
Data Formats

• XML
• JSON
• CSV
• Excel
• PDF
• Numpy/Pandas*
• NetCDF
3 XML options within the standard library

• SAX
- Can handle huge datasets
- Hard to use, verbose code
• DOM
- Familiar: Javascript uses the DOM
- Easy (ish)
• Etree
- Feels like python
- Extremely easy and concise for common tasks
JSON

• json module

>>> import json


>>> d = json.load(open("states.json", 'r'))
>>> print(type(d))
<class 'dict'>
CSV & Excel

• csv module

>>> import csv


>>> with open('eggs.csv', 'rb') as csvfile:
... spamreader = csv.reader(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|')
... for row in spamreader:
... print ', '.join(row)
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans
Spam, Lovely Spam, Wonderful Spam

• xlrd & xlwt (third-party, included in ArcGIS)

Sample from python.org


PDF

• arcpy.mapping.PDFDocument
• reportlab (third-party)
- allows rapid creation of rich PDF documents, and also creation of charts in a variety
of bitmap and vector formats.
Networking

• Calls to HTTP servers


- urllib2
- requests (third-party, pip-install)
- asyncio
Computing

• Numpy
• Pandas *
• Scipy *
• Sympy *
• R bridge (coming soon: github.com/R-ArcGIS … wait this isn’t python at all)

- * Pro 1.0 & planned for Desktop/Server 10.4


Resources

arcpy.wordpress.com

twitter.com/arcpy

desktop.arcgis.com/en/desktop/

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