Python and ArcView GIS

[Bernhard Reiter]

In article <GyPe4.14473$2x3.253287 at newscontent-01.sprint.ca>,
	"Bruce Dodson" <bruce_dodson.nospam at bigfoot.com> writes:
> If anyone is interested in this combination, I have an ArcView 3.x extension
> which embeds the Python interpreter within ArcView.  The benefits are
> obvious: access to COM objects and Python modules, plus a full-featured
> language, more suitable for large applications than ArcView's native
> scripting language.  

Sounds interesing.
Why do you need to embed python in ArcView?

Would it not be enough to just use the COM objects with python's 
win32com.client?

Thanks for sharing your work in any way, though.
I hope you will license it as free software.

	Bernhard
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