Getting string data from a shape file attribute table

Question

Hello

I am looking to extract string field from a shapefile attribute table to then allow me to do a number of IF logic calculations but I am not sure how to get that specific field from the shapefile to the allow me to script the calculations.

Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.

Thanks
Fiona

Zeke · Accepted Answer

Some help here...import arcpy  fc = 'yourfeatureclass' strfld = 'yourstringfield'  with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(fc, strFld) as cur:     for row in cur:         valueyouwant = row[0]         # do something with valueyouwant