[Qgis-user] QGIS/ArcGIS python interference

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Torsten,

What seems to the issue?  You are trying to run a arcpy script from inside
qgis?

Nathan

On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 6:02 am Torsten Lange <torsten.lange at mail.de> wrote:

> Hello qgis-user fellows,
>
> I would like to pose a more general question here, because obviously my
> previous mails seemed just too OT ;)
>
> Due to some severe problems when coincidently accessing/editing spatial
> data (not the same data but in the same directory) with ArcGIS on remote
> (samba) drives - which our IT sofar never couldn't really explain - I
> started using QGIS to easy the situation for my colleagues and me.
>
> However, beside the sporty challenge for me to fastly adopt the productive
> operation of the QGIS including some still apparent drawbacks I sometimes
> just depend on functionallity that only ArcGIS provides. In our geological
> driven case thats for sure the very sophisticated "Spline with Barrier"
> function. We currently changed our workflow that previously based on a
> ArcView 3.x plugin, but which caused more and more trouble since
> Windows7/64bit rules the hardware in the department.
>
> At one time I agreed to program a workflow that does all the necessary
> preprocessing and final gridding depending on quite a number of input
> parameters. Of course, I had no plan to cut me off as a (quite happy) QGIS
> user who by using QGIS in fact did an altruistic favour to the colleagues
> but esp. to the IT dep. ;)
>
> So, I wrote a general python script using arcpy/spatial analyst... that
> accepts the input parameters as dictionary provided on command line or
> using a seperate python script defining a class holding the input
> parameter. I created a QGIS dialog plugin that collects all those
> parameters in an appropriate manner in the form of:
>
> start /i cmd /c python myWorkflow.py -d "configDict = {'inputIsoLineFile':
> r"U:\... etc etc}"
>
> I also learned I had to copy the xxx64bit.pth-File (don't remember the
> correct name right now) from the ArcGIS-Python directory to the QGIS python
> site-packages directory.
>
> Now, beside some error messages (some gdal dll in QGIS....etc are not real
> 32bit.... or so), which seem to have no real impact on the run itself, I
> got my first grids, which I sent to a post processing befor leaving the
> desktop.
>
>
> This to getting work cost me a lot of extra time. I mean, I did this "en
> passent" while fullfilling my main work. So I'm really interested in what
> would be your approach to that! In fact to me it seems much more easy if I
> could start a cmd session that has no inherits from what so ever and comes
> with the environment as if I would start it from the Windows menu.
>
> Sorry for the long description, appreciating some thoughts of you!
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