Cannot import Esri's arcpy into jupyter notebook

[Hugo]

Hi 

I have followed instructions about making anaconda compatible with Esri's arcpy implementation in  

https://gisday.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/setting-up-anaconda-pysal-with-arcgis-python-environment/

In particular I have imported all the .pth files from python to anaconda and vice versa (but I have put them in the site-packages folders, as I found some other instructions about that.)

When I open a jupyter notebook and try the import statement i.e. 

import arcpy

I get the following error: 

ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-1-50d283eebbb3> in <module>()
----> 1 import arcpy

C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy\arcpy\__init__.py in <module>()
     20 import numpy
     21 
---> 22 from arcpy.geoprocessing import gp
     23 from arcpy.geoprocessing import env
     24 from arcpy.geoprocessing._base import gptooldoc as _gptooldoc

C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy\arcpy\geoprocessing\__init__.py in <module>()
     12 #
     13 #email: 
---> 14 from _base import *

ImportError: No module named '_base'

I am on ArcGIS Desktop 10.5 and anaconda 3. Note however that I also have ArcGIS for Server, ArcGIS Pro and Portal for ArcGIS installed in the same environment.  

I have tried to add several path entries into the .pth file I import into the site-packages folder of anaconda, but some of them stop the jupyter notebook from firing up altogether. 

By default, by desktop.pth file from Esri't python installation contains the following entries: 

C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\bin

C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy

C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcToolBox\Scripts

I have executed, in the Esri environment: 

import sys

print.sys.path

and then added all the returned path entries to the desktop.pth file in the anaconda site-packages folder, but when I do this, the jupyter notebook fails to open.   

Can anyone help? 

Thanks

Hugo      

[Rich Signell]

ArcPro now uses Miniconda, so that should be easy.

Also check out these tips:
https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=540116867
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[XL]

Another simple way is using archook package. It can be called using pip directly from Jupyter Notebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gXga0_zbc0