"import arcpy" crashing Stat (19.5 and 18.5)

[Richard Palmer-Jones]

Dear Readers

After a couple of years I tried to rerun some Stata programmes that include ArcGis Pro (now 3.7) commands. I used the same set up, but although I set the python exec appropriately Stata (19.5 up to date) crashes when I try to import arcpy

python query
local initialised = "`r(initialized)'"
di `r(initialized)'
if "`r(initialized)'" ~= "1" {
    python set exec "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\python.exe"
    python set userpath "C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Pro\bin\Python\envs\arcgispro-py3\"
}

python
import arcpy

CRASH

Any ideas? The likeliest explanation is that the ArcGis python version is incompatible with the arcpy version, but I don't know why they would be different.

In a "cmd" window I can run the ArcGis python version and import arcpy, and it works.

Thanks for your attention and best wishes.

Richard

[Richard Palmer-Jones]

Dear Readers

I'm still unable to load (Esri) ArcPy from Stata despite ongoing assistance from Stata Technical (much appreciated).

It seems I can't load NumPy, which seems a more general problem - i.e. not specific to ArcPy. A second (laptop) Windows 11 Pc has the same problem

Has anyone else experienced this? Was a solution found?

Thanks for attention

Richard

[Evgeny Saburov]

I gave it a try.
I'm using Stata 18 on Windows 11 and had no problems installing numpy with a simple "pip install numpy" from Windows Powershell. It was installed in the writable "Users" folder.

Stata had no issue finding it either. This is the code I ran:

python set exec "c:\Program Files\Python312\python.exe", permanently

python:
import numpy
print(numpy.__file__)
end

python:
import numpy as np

a = np.array([1, 2])
b = np.array([3, 4])

result = np.dot(a, b)

print(result)
end

And this was the result:

. python set exec "c:\Program Files\Python312\python.exe", permanently
(python_exec preference recorded)

. 
. python:
----------------------------------------------- python (type end to exit) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> import numpy
>>> print(numpy.__file__)
C:\Users\evgeny\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python312\site-packages\numpy\__init__.py
>>> end
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. 
. python:
----------------------------------------------- python (type end to exit) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> import numpy as np
>>> 
>>> a = np.array([1, 2])
>>> b = np.array([3, 4])
>>> 
>>> result = np.dot(a, b)
>>> 
>>> print(result)
11
>>> end
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