Enabling ArcSDE Archiving with Python and C API using ArcGIS 10.0?

Question

I have a script that does some register as versioned and updating privileges.

How would I call into the c api for ArcSDE to enable archiving with python?

http://help.arcgis.com/en/geodatabase/10.0/sdk/arcsde/api/capi/versioning/archcreate.htm

Any direction would be helpful.

Answer 1

I am not sure if this was available earlier than ArcGIS 10.2 for Desktop, but there is now a tool called Enable Archiving (Data Management) which:

Enables archiving on a table, feature layer, or feature dataset.

Its online documentation, which is linked above, provides an ArcPy code sample that:

illustrates how to use the EnableArchiving tool in a stand-alone script.