Fix ImportError: No Module Named Arcgisscripting in ArcGIS Desktop

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I am trying to run an ArcGIS python script from Eclipse and get the following message:

ImportError: No module named arcgisscripting

I can run this in IDLE… any ideas?

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I received this error last week after I modified my PYTHONPATH environment variable and misspelled my path to arcgisscripting.pyd.

Correcting the PYTHONPATH to include 'c:\Program files\ArcGIS\Bin' (spelled correctly) fixed the problem.

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Check whether you are using the correct version of Python.

My install of ArcGIS 10.1 installed and uses python 2.7, and it looks like you are using 2.6, so it may be the case that ArcPy has not been installed for this version of python.

Typically python is installed in the root of your main hard drive, so you can check for a second version of python there.

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This error is discussed near the bottom of the Importing ArcPy documentation page where there are some additional notes about ArcGIS 10.2.x (if that is the version that you are using):

Tip: If importing ArcPy produces either of the following errors, the required modules could not be found:

ImportError: No module named arcpy

ImportError: No module named arcgisscripting

To address this, browse using Windows Explorer to the python27\Lib\site-packages folder and add or edit the Desktop10.2.2.pth file. The file should contain the three lines shown below (corrected to your system's path if they do not match):
c:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2.2\arcpy
c:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2.2\bin
c:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2.2\ArcToolbox\Scripts

From ArcGIS 10.3.x to 10.8.x (see Importing ArcPy for those versions) it looks like:

The installation will also add the file Desktop10.3.pth (or Engine10.3.pth or Server10.3.pth) into python27\Lib\site-packages.

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