How to working with geometry in editing session with Python?

SaidAkif

I have to copy lot of polygons (without attributs) for a shapefile to another in an editing session.

I want to do this with python scripting in python windows (ArcGIS 10.1).

I selected each polygon of interest and now I am doing this work just by Copy/Paste commands?

Some time the copy do not work and I have to repeat this step lot of time (I work on a server).

Can you please help me to figure out this problem?

Thanks

OwenEarley

If you just want to copy the shape of selected features in the ArcMap Python window then:

• Add your two shapefiles to ArcMap and open the Python window.
• Select the features you want to copy and enter the following python code - make sure to change the layer names to match your input and output:

inscursor = arcpy.da.InsertCursor("OutputShapes",("SHAPE@"))
with arcpy.da.SearchCursor("InputData", ["SHAPE@"]) as cursor:
    for row in cursor:
        inscursor.insertRow((row[0],))

For example:

This will copy just the geometry into the output shapefile.

Hope this helps.

Owen

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