PythonWin for ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine, ArcGIS Server

With ArcGIS 10.0, the Python Win 32 extension is not installed (as it is not required). If PythonWin is not installed, any existing scripts created using win32com will no longer work correctly. Therefore the PythonWin32 setup is available on the ArcGIS 10.0 Desktop, ArcGIS 10.0 Engine Runtime, ArcGIS Server Workgroup 10.0, and the ArcGIS Server Enterprise 10.0 for Windows installation media. Note: The PythonWin32 extension setup requires an existing installation of Python 2.6.2 which is installed by the ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server setups. ArcGIS no longer installs PythonWin because the recommended methodology for creating the geoprocessor has changed to using a new Python module that ESRI has developed to support the latest version of Python and multiple platforms, such as Windows, UNIX and Linux. To move forward with ArcGIS 10.0 and Python scripting, you must do one of the two options: 1. Alter your scripts to use the new ArcGIS python module to create the geoprocessor. Please see the following online help section for more information: Geoprocessing/Automating your work with scripts/Accessing tools with geoprocessing scripts/Creating the geoprocessor object 2. Install the PythonWin install program, pywin32-212.win32-py2.6.exe, found on the installation CD. This will install win32com and enable your existing scripts to work as they did before.