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brycefrank / pyfor

Tools for analyzing aerial point clouds of forest data.
MIT License
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Python 2 #34

Closed rmanzano-dev closed 5 years ago

rmanzano-dev commented 5 years ago

Is there any way to use pyfor with python2? I have to use it in a project including ArcPy which needs python2 to work.

Thank for the reply.

brycefrank commented 5 years ago

There is nothing stopping you from trying, however the dependency stack is rather deep, so the likelihood that something is not backward compatible is very high.

That said, I think pyfor, along with other open source GIS packages, can be used in a workflow in tandem with ArcPy. pyfor supports file I/O for typical file types, like .tif and .shp (and of course .las) files. It is certainly possible to tie these elements together in a script, you could call the bits you need in Python 2 from Python 3 (or vice versa if you prefer) using something like:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/51702380/5249681

I was also under the impression that the latest ArcGIS Pro switched to Python 3 anyway?