I am trying to move some scripts from 9.3 over to 10.1 and a portion of my script is hanging up on the merge tool. Below is the code from 9.3 pertaining to the merge (tested and worked). Obviously I set Input_Workspace at run time. The goal is to merge all shapefiles in the directory. All are same type (polygon):print "\nSetting the current workspace to: " + Input_Workspace + "...\n"
gp.Workspace = Input_Workspace
# Delete Merge file if exists...
merged_file = Input_Workspace + '/' + "Exp_merged.shp"
if gp.Exists(merged_file):
gp.Delete(merged_file)
print "Merge file exists, deleted...\n"
# Start a blank list for appending
list = []
# For each file in the current directory
for file in os.listdir(Input_Workspace):
# Get files that end with *.shp
if (file.endswith("shp")):
# Append all the files together into one big list
filepath = list.append(file)
# Hard-code the output merged shapefile name
shapefile = "Exp_merged.shp"
# Given a list of shapefiles, separate each by a ";"
# and put quotes around the whole thing
def Lst(filepath):
return '"%s"' % ';'.join(list)
# Set the variable "mergedlist" to the newly formatted list of shapefiles
mergedlist = Lst(filepath)
print "Merging exports...\n"
gp.merge_management(mergedlist, shapefile)
print "Merged " + mergedlist + " to get " + shapefile + "...\n"
Can anybody help me convert this? I have tried changing the semicolon to a comma (as it appears arcpy merge wants a different format for the input). If you have a better way I am of course open to that.
