Loop through and Rebuild Locators

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I'd like to loop through a file folder and rebuild all the locators in it. Unfortunately, I can't find anything that returns the locator name. I have been able to loop through using arcpy.ListFiles and find all *.loc files but arcpy.RebuildAddressLocator_geocoding doesn't allow you to use this because of the .loc. It says it cannot open the locator. The Esri technical article doesn't apply here because I can rebuild it fine as long as I don't include the .loc. Throws the error 000005 Could not open address locator # import system modules import os import arcpy # Set environment settings arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/Locators/Test_LocatorRebuild/" for loc in arcpy.ListFiles("*.loc"): print(loc) arcpy.RebuildAddressLocator_geocoding(loc) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ Anyone have any suggestions. I am currently just adding all locators into the python array and looping through them that way. It's not ideal but works for now. # import system modules import os import arcpy #Set my_workspace to the folder location of the locators my_workspace = r'C:\Locators\Test_LocatorRebuild\' #Set my_locators array to include the names of each locator to be rebuilt my_locators = [my_workspace + "Streets_Test", my_workspace + "Structures_Test"] #Loop through the array and rebuild the address locators for loc in my_locators: print("Rebuilding " + loc) arcpy.RebuildAddressLocator_geocoding(loc) print(loc + " rebuild complete") ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

Be careful about adding backslashes to the end of paths... in some cases they don't work locator = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(in_fc))[0] a = r"C:\Locators\Test_LocatorRebuild\" + "\" + locator print(a) C:\Locators\Test_LocatorRebuild\\Polygon‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

StevenGraf1 · Answer

I had to strip the extension and re-add the file path for it to work. Final script is below. # import system modules import os import arcpy arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Locators\Test_LocatorRebuild\" for loc in arcpy.ListFiles("*.loc"): locator = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(loc))[0] print("Rebuilding " + locator) arcpy.RebuildAddressLocator_geocoding(arcpy.env.workspace + "\" + locator) ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍