Using Python 2.5.4 with ArcGIS 9.3.1

This blog post was written by David Wynne, Product Engineer on the Geoprocessing Team in ESRI’s Software Products group in Redlands.

The Python Community announced the release of Python 2.5.4 late in December of 2008. Python 2.5.4 is a bug fixes release.

While ArcGIS 9.3.1 was shipped with Python 2.5.1, Python 2.5.4 has now been certified and is supported. In limited testing with ArcGIS 9.3, no issues were encountered.  To take advantage of fixes in Python 2.5.4, it can simply be installed on top of Python 2.5.1. That means, it is not necessary to uninstall Python 2.5.1 first.* 

To see and to download the release notes go here.

* If you uninstalled Python 2.5.1 and you work with the Spatial Statistics geoprocessing tools, you must reinstall Numerical Python (NumPy) from the ArcGIS installation DVDs.

For more information, see FAQ: Can Python 2.5.4 be used with ArcGIS?

Published Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:44 AM by bbicking1

Comments

 

Riverside said:

So, is this something esri will be doing in the future as well, where updates to py will be certified and then posted to the blog

May 12, 2009 12:26 PM
 

dwynne said:

Python 2.5.4 was certified partly due to high user interest.  In the future, I would expect to see such updates here on the Resource Center and/or as a knowledge base article on the Support Center.

May 15, 2009 3:44 PM
 

DanielP said:

David, have the Spatial Statistics geoprocessing tools been tested with newer versions of the numpy module (1.3.0 is now available)?

May 22, 2009 12:10 AM
 

dwynne said:

Hi Daniel--Some work has been done internally with more recent versions of NumPy without any problems, but it has not been thoroughly tested to this point.

June 4, 2009 3:39 PM
 

aewilson said:

This is good information.  We have also run into issues with numpy 1.0.3.  

Is there any new information on either further internal work or completion of thorough testing of numpy 1.3 and ArcGIS 9.3.1 to help make the case for updating our enterprise python installations?  

September 24, 2009 8:06 AM
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