I want to partially change the path for layers in an mxd from a letter drive to a UNC path.
The help page for updating and fixing datasources with arcpy states "...allows you to substitute an entire or partial string for a layer..." but I cannot figure out how to partially replace a path. I have an mxd with one layer that points to W:\Data\City\Planimetric\xyz_planimetric_data_2011.mdb
This doesn't change the path.
import arcpy
mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument(r'C:\GIS\test\AppServerConnections.mxd')
for lyr in arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd):
wp = lyr.workspacePath
if 'W:' in wp:
nwp = r"\\\gisserver2" + wp[2:]
mxd.findAndReplaceWorkspacePaths(wp,nwp)
mxd.saveACopy(r"c:\gis\test\test2.mxd")
del mxd
if I substitute add a print statement here
if 'W:' in wp:
nwp = r"\\gisserver2" + wp[2:]
print nwp
it prints as I would expect: \\gisserver2\Data\City\Planimetric\xyz_planimetric_data_2011.mdb
What am I missing?
