Create a Address Locator

NickXu

I'm trying to create a Gazetteer style address locator by python script as:

<SPAN class="keyword token">import</SPAN> arcpy
arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>CreateAddressLocator_geocoding<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>
 in_address_locator_style<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"General Gazetteer"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
 in_reference_data<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"(folder)\address2.gdb\ADDRESS_LOCATOR 'Primary Table'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
 in_field_map<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"'Feature ID' OBJECTID VISIBLE NONE;'*Place Name' ADDRESS VISIBLE NONE;Category <None> VISIBLE NONE;Type <None> VISIBLE NONE;Tags <None> VISIBLE NONE;Description <None> VISIBLE NONE;'3-Digit Language Code' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'2-Digit Language Code' <None> VISIBLE NONE;Rank <None> VISIBLE NONE;Neighborhood <None> VISIBLE NONE;City <None> VISIBLE NONE;County <None> VISIBLE NONE;State <None> VISIBLE NONE;'State Abbreviation' <None> VISIBLE NONE;Country <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Country Abbreviation' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Street Address' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Full Address' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Primary Phone' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Primary URL' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Display X' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Display Y' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Min X value for extent' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Max X value for extent' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Min Y value for extent' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Max Y value for extent' <None> VISIBLE NONE;'Additional Field' USER_DATA VISIBLE NONE"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
 out_address_locator<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"(out_put_folder)\test.GeocodeServer"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
 config_keyword<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">""</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN>
 enable_suggestions<SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">"ENABLED"</SPAN>
 <SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

but got error as: 

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<module1>", line 12, in <module>
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.5\ArcPy\arcpy\geocoding.py", line 160, in CreateAddressLocator
raise e
ExecuteError: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid.
ERROR 000046: Too many reference data tables for this style.
Failed to execute (CreateAddressLocator).

I did try create locator from arcMap and Pro using the same data and successful.

Any thing wrong with my python script?

thank you for any help.

JoshAndreas

I ran into this error today. Posting my solution here in case someone else makes the same mistake I did, because the error message has little to do with the actual problem in both my case and Nick's original case.

For me, it had nothing to do with path name and everything to do with my first parameter. I used "General-Gazetteer", which is how it is spelled in the parameter syntax table at Create Address Locator—Help | ArcGIS Desktop. Shame on me for following documentation. Evidently, it needs to have spaces on either side of the dash: "General - Gazetteer". To be fair, I do see that their sample code has the spaces, but I always refer to the table for the list of valid parameter values and just look at the sample code when I need help formatting these values (i.e. with the 2nd and 3rd parameters).

(And for the record, when I format my first parameter like the code in the original question, "General Gazetteer" with no dash at all, I also get the same error)