Using the results of geoprocess in another geoprocess

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I have a list to hold the iterated results of running arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer and 'arcpy.CopyFeatures` geoprocesses.selectList = [] fip = '13245' for fc in featureclasses: select = arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(fc, "temp_lyr","FIPS_CODE = '{}'".format(fip)) arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/Workspace/Sandbox/selects.gdb" selectFeatures = arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(select, "select_{}".format(fip)) selectList.append(selectFeatures) When I print(selectList) it gives me a weird list of results: [<Result'C:\Workspace\Sandbox\MapChangeProject\selects.gdb\select_13245'>, <Result 'C:\Workspace\Sandbox\MapChangeProject\selects.gdb\select_06037'>] What I want to do is merge all of these results together into one feature like this: arcpy.Merge_management(selectList, "merge") What am I doing wrong here and how do I get my results into a format that will work for my merge?

DarrenWiens2 · Accepted Answer

Please format your code so it's not single-line: /blogs/dan_patterson/2016/08/14/script-formatting selectList = [] fip = '13245' for fc in featureclasses: select = arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(fc, "temp_lyr","FIPS_CODE = '{}'".format(fip)) arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/Workspace/Sandbox/selects.gdb" selectFeatures = arcpy.CopyFeatures_management(select, "select_{}".format(fip)) selectList.append(selectFeatures)‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ See here for using geoprocessing result objects: Using tools in Python—Help | ArcGIS Desktop I'm guessing you want to use: selectList.append(selectFeatures[0]) # or selectList.append(selectFeatures.getOutput())‍‍‍