Clip feature classes by feature classes

bogdanpalade1

Hello,

There are a lot of examples on the web on how to clip a lot of layers by a single feature class, and the python code would be more or less like below... But what happens when you want to clip each feature class in the input folder by more than one feature classs located for example in a "Clip_features" folder? Hor do you iterate at the same time over the input feature classes and the clip feature classes?

 
import arcgisscripting, sys, os
gp = arcgisscripting.create()
gp.workspace = "D:\inWorkspace"
clipFeatures = "D:\shape.shp"
outWorkspace = "D:\outWorkspace"
fcs = gp.ListFeatureClasses()
fcs.Reset()
fc = fcs.Next()
while fc:
          outFeatureClass = outWorkspace + os.sep + fc.split('_')[0] + "_clip.shp"
          gp.Clip_analysis(fc, clipFeatures, outFeatureClass, "")
          fc = fcs.Next()

Thank you in advance,

Bogdan

RDHarles

I have a single shapefile that I need to clip multiple times with different shapefiles.  It seems like the code in this thread should work, but I tried the script and did not get any results.  No error messages, just nothing in the output folder.  How should I change the script to work with version 10 and my current workflow?

Susan,
It could be many things:
1.) Have you set up the paths to your shapefiles correctly?
2.) Are all the shapefiles in the same coordinate system?
* Whether you are using ARC 9.x or 10 shouldn't make any difference in this case.
** I'd recommend posting the exact code you are trying to use