Hi, I have a Feature Class to Feature Class script that is supposed to take a Feature Class (FC) of locations and create a separate FC for each location. However, it keeps giving me the following two errors. ERROR 000210 : Cannot create output E : \arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages . gdb\NorthEdmond ERROR 000354 : The name contains invalid characters Failed to execute ( FeatureClassToFeatureClass ) Here is the FC to FC script: inFeatures = "PythonTest_Geocoded" fields = [ 'ObjectID' , 'Shape' , 'USER_Center' ] with arcpy . da . SearchCursor ( inFeatures , fields ) as cursor : for row in cursor : outLocation = r "E:\arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages.gdb" outFeatureClass = "{0}" . format ( row [ 2 ] ) delimitedField = arcpy . AddFieldDelimiters ( env . workspace , "USER_Center" ) expression = delimitedField + " = '{0}'" . format ( row [ 2 ] ) print ( expression ) ## Execute FeatureClassToFeatureClass arcpy . FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion ( inFeatures , outLocation , outFeatureClass , expression ) The output FCs are supposed to be named after their corresponding locations ('USER_Center"). This field contains no invalid characters, as you can see below (I was testing this code on a table with only 3 rows). Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong/missing? Thanks.

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ArcPy Feature Class to Feature Class - Name contains invalid charcters

Business_IntelligenceSoftware

Hi,

I have a Feature Class to Feature Class script that is supposed to take a Feature Class (FC) of locations and create a separate FC for each location. However, it keeps giving me the following two errors.

ERROR <SPAN class="number token">000210</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> Cannot create output E<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>\arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>gdb\NorthEdmond&nbsp; 
ERROR <SPAN class="number token">000354</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN> The name contains invalid characters
Failed to execute <SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>FeatureClassToFeatureClass<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

Here is the FC to FC script:

inFeatures <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"PythonTest_Geocoded"</SPAN>
fields <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'ObjectID'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">'Shape'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN><SPAN class="string token">'USER_Center'</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN>

<SPAN class="keyword token">with</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>da<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>SearchCursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>inFeatures<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> fields<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN> <SPAN class="keyword token">as</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">for</SPAN> row <SPAN class="keyword token">in</SPAN> cursor<SPAN class="punctuation token">:</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; outLocation <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> r<SPAN class="string token">"E:\arcGIS_Shared\Business Analyst\PotentialCitePackages.gdb"</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; outFeatureClass <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; delimitedField <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>AddFieldDelimiters<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>env<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>workspace<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"USER_Center"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; expression <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> delimitedField <SPAN class="operator token">+</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">" = '{0}'"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="keyword token">print</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>expression<SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <SPAN class="comment token">## Execute FeatureClassToFeatureClass</SPAN>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; arcpy<SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>FeatureClassToFeatureClass_conversion<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>inFeatures<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> outLocation<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> outFeatureClass<SPAN class="punctuation token">,</SPAN> expression<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>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

The output FCs are supposed to be named after their corresponding locations ('USER_Center"). This field contains no invalid characters, as you can see below (I was testing this code on a table with only 3 rows).

Could someone help me figure out what I'm doing wrong/missing?

Thanks.

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JoshuaBixby

Whitespace characters are invalid, and I suspect you have one at the end of your text, i.e., the text is 'NorthEdmond ' instead of 'NorthEdmond' . Try changing:

outFeatureClass <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>strip<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

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Business_IntelligenceSoftware

That was the answer. Thanks for your help!

JoshuaBixby

Whitespace characters are invalid, and I suspect you have one at the end of your text, i.e., the text is 'NorthEdmond ' instead of 'NorthEdmond' . Try changing:

outFeatureClass <SPAN class="operator token">=</SPAN> <SPAN class="string token">"{0}"</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>format<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN>row<SPAN class="punctuation token">[</SPAN><SPAN class="number token">2</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">]</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">.</SPAN>strip<SPAN class="punctuation token">(</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="punctuation token">)</SPAN><SPAN class="line-numbers-rows"><SPAN>‍</SPAN></SPAN>

DanPatterson_Retired

can you print out the expression.

see that capital U suggests it may be making a Unicode character, and I suspect that your path no longer is in raw format and only contains single backslashes.

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