ArcGIS Pro – Using Spyder as Python IDE with ArcGIS Pro

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I just installed ArcGIS Pro and would like to either import arcpy into anaconda, or use spyder as my IDE in GIS. I have tried two things:

For ArcGIS Desktop you had to copy the .pth file from GIS to Lib/site-packages in anaconda. I did that but it didn't work.
I went to this website, https://geonet.esri.com/blogs/dan_patterson/2016/07/17/anaconda-spyder-and-arcgis-pro, and I tried to find spyder.exe in my Scripts folder like the link says. It didn't exist. So I copied spyder.exe from Anaconda into that location. Then, when I launched my ide with ide from the command prompt within ArcGIS pro, it launched the default ide and not spyder.

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I've found it easier to just install spyder into each python environment rather than trying to get a single spyder install to work with multiple environments.

To install spyder in ArcGIS Pro, open the Python Package Manager and install spyder from there or open your ArcGIS Pro terminal/activate your ArcGIS Pro environment and run conda install spyder

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Python/ArcPy Installation – Setting Up with ArcGIS Pro and Visual Studio

Python/ArcPy for ArcGIS Pro 1.3 is now installed in

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\

So your IDE needs to be pointed at that environment to pick up the link to arcpy.

In Visual Studio open the Python Environments window, click "+ Custom..." and select "Configure".

Give the new environment a name e.g. Python 64-bit 3.5 ArcPy and populate the path fields with the path above, specifying the relevant file in that path for each field.

Prefix Path: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\
Interpreter Path: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe
Windowed Interpreter: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\pythonw.exe
Library Path: C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\Lib
Language Version: 3.5
Architecture: 64-bit

Click Apply on the right.

For more information see Python and ArcGIS Pro 1.3 : Conda, which includes help for other IDEs as well.

[GIS] Recreating Anaconda environment after ArcGIS Pro installation

You may just want to move up to later version of ArcGIS Pro.

Your expectation matches the 2.2 behavior nicely.

2.2 session below (sanitized for noise).

(arcgispro-py3) C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts>conda create --clone arcgispro-py3 --name new
Source:      C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3
Destination: C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\ESRI\conda\envs\new
Packages: 98
Files: 23
- Validating: ok

(arcgispro-py3) C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts>activate new

(new) C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts>pip install bs4
Collecting bs4
Collecting beautifulsoup4 (from bs4)
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/fe/62/720094d06cb5a92cd4b3aa3a7c678c0bb157526a95c4025d15316d594c4b/beautifulsoup4-4.6.1-py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: beautifulsoup4, bs4
Successfully installed beautifulsoup4-4.6.1 bs4-0.0.1
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 18.0 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'python -m pip install --upgrade pip' command.

(new) C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\Scripts>python -c "import bs4;print(bs4.__version__)"
4.6.1

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