Brief Introduction to Python Interfaces

This week's assignment for GIS Programming was simply to access various Windows based ways to code in Python (which ESRI has adopted and integrated deeply into their ArcGIS environment). This included the default installation of IDLE for Python, PythonWin and the Python IDE environment that's a part of ArcGIS 10. After issuing print commands in various ways - via the IDE CLI, via *.py script, etc. - a script was run out of PythonWin that set up a standardized directory hierarchy for future modules, the results of which are depicted below. The only other deliverable was a barebones process summary.

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