Another ArcPy PSA (ArcGIS Pro 3.3) – writing as affiliative behavior

Just a small #ArcPy public service announcement for anyone creating a standalone environment via #conda using #ArcGISPro 3.3. The currently hosted arcpy package (py311_arcgispro_52583) may not work on your machine utilizing the normal conda command like:

conda install esri::arcpy

You’ll be alerted if this is an issue because the packages will refuse to install, instead there will be a series of cascading errors each ending with something like:

Runtime Error: OpenlSSL 3.0's legacy provider failed to load. This is a fatal error by default, but cryptography supports running without legacy algorithms by .

Luckily this isn’t a deal breaker, you’ll just need to specify the install order with the following commands, this assumes you are starting in (base) conda:

conda create -n the-name-of-your-new-env
conda activate the-name-of-your-new-env
conda install esri::python
conda install esri::cryptography
conda install esri:arcpy

There ya go. Hopefully you find this and it is relatively painless. Or it gets patched and somehow you stumbled upon this and it seems a bit esoteric.