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Subject: Python Language Support for ArcView GIS - DN [1]

"Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson.nospam@bigfoot.com> - 08 Apr 2000 - comp.soft-sys.gis.esri,comp.lang.python

 Python Language Support for ArcView GIS (aka AVPython) is now available
 online as a free download.  I promised this several months ago but never
 managed to find a home for it (too busy) so finally I decided to just slap
 together a page for it on GeoCities:
 www.geocities.com/brucedodson.rm/avpython.htm

 If you're an ArcView developer and want to be able to control COM-enabled
 programs like Excel or ArcInfo, or if you want to be able to interoperate
 with distributed systems through standards like XML and HTTP, you might want
 to give it a try.  The same goes for Python programmers who happen to be
 working with ArcView GIS (hey, there must be a few!), and want to be able to
 apply their Python skills (and use a better language) when developing
 ArcView applications.

 Python is free and open source.  I hope AVPython will eventually be the
 same, but we haven't yet settled on an acceptable open source license, so
 for now the best I can do is provide a binary that is freely
 redistributable.

 If you use AVPython on any interesting projects, or if you have any positive
 feedback or things that you'd like to change, feed my hubris: tell me about
 it!  Just take nospam out of my address, or use the one listed in the
 documentation.

 Sincerely,
 Bruce Dodson