Hi Victoria,

 

Usually that generic error (<type 'exceptions.SystemExit'>: 1) with no other messages means that the Python for Windows Extensions (a.k.a. the pywin32 package) is not installed for your version of Python. All MGET tools require this package. This is discussed in the MGET Installation Instructions, but it does trip people up more than any other MGET installation issue so we are working on eliminating the requirement.

 

To check whether you have pywin32 installed:

 

1.    Start the Windows Control Panel.

2.    Click on Add/Remove Programs (on Windows Vista, switch to Classic View and click Programs and Features).

3.    Scroll down and look for a program called Python X.Y pywin32-ZZZ where X.Y is your Python version (probably 2.5 if you have ArcGIS 9.3) and ZZZ is some version number such as 212.

 

If you have the program AND the ZZZ number is 210 or later, then pywin32 is installed properly and there is some other problem.

 

If you have the program AND the ZZZ number is earlier than 210, you have pywin32 installed but the version is tool old. Uninstall it and download a newer version, as described in the next paragraph.

 

If you don't have the program, download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/. If you have Arc 9.3 you are most likely using Python 2.5, so you'd want the file called pywin32-212.win32-py2.5.exe. This is the one that appears in the green box on the page that comes up after you click the green Download button on the home page.

 

Let me know if this helps!

 

Best regards,

 

Jason

 

 

Hi,

I’m running MGET on an Windows XP machine with ArcView 9.3, I can’t use any of the tools at the moment, I keep getting this error message when I try to convert a HDF, the same error appears when I try to extract the headers, and when I use the files on the website example page.

 

 

Executing: HDFSDSToArcGISRaster "C:\My Data\BSHOBSVJ\My Documents\temp\A20080612008091.L3m_MO_CHLO_4.bz2" "C:\My Data\BSHOBSVJ\My Documents\PhD\Temp\mget_output_play\chl" l3m_data -180 -90 4.16666666666667E-02 # false false false false # # # # # # # # false

Start Time: Wed Jan 14 15:03:42 2009

Running script HDFSDSToArcGISRaster...

<type 'exceptions.SystemExit'>: 1

Failed to execute (HDFSDSToArcGISRaster).

End Time: Wed Jan 14 15:03:44 2009 (Elapsed Time: 2.00 seconds)

 

 

Can you help?!

 

Regards,

Victoria