Resources

ArcPy Reference

ArcPy is the Python library provided by ESRI for interacting with ArcGIS Pro. The ArcPy reference is their comprehensive documentation explaining the public API and providing examples on how to use said API. Reading through and exploring the reference is a good way to get familiar with the library’s offerings and also to understand colawater-toolbox’s own code, which heavily relies on ArcPy and uses it extensively.

Specific helpful resources

• ArcPy Homepage

• A series of articles introducing creating geoprocessing tools in python

• An overview of ArcPy classes

• An overview of ArcPy functions

• Parameter data type reference

Note

colawater-toolbox provides ready-to-go templates for development that are better suited to its codebase. The ArcPy template is just a helpful reference.

• ArcPy toolbox template