ArcGIS_Python_Template | Example of how to set up a Python Toolbox for ESRI ArcGIS

ArcGIS_Python_Template is a Python library. ArcGIS_Python_Template has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. However ArcGIS_Python_Template build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

This project serves as a starting point when creating ArcGIS Python Tools. In the ESRI world, "Python Tool" and "Python Toolbox" have specific meanings. They were added starting sometime around ArcGIS 10.1. Before "Python Toolboxes" it was still possible to write scripts in Python for use in ArcGIS. Back then interfacing a script to ArcGIS meant using ArcCatalog to define what parameters the script takes and storing those definitions in a proprietary binary file. The bad thing about this approach that it is hard to keeping the ArcGIS binary file and the script in sync. Change the parameters in the python and the definitions stopped working. Since the ArcGIS file is in binary form, you can forget putting it into version control and being able to update it from a text editor. With Python Toolboxes, everything is stored in the plain text Python source files, so it's cleaner and very easy to put into version control. Conceptually, "Python tools" live inside "Python toolboxes" and that's how they appear in Catalog. There can be many tools in one toolbox. In practice, I break everything out into separate files, so that's what I have done in this template. This template just shows you how to set up a Python toolbox, it does nothing interesting on its own. To use it, copy the repository as a functioning starting point, then add your own code.