#Script that computes the Percent forsted area from a landcover raster and #county zone data. Then finds the buffer distance required around sampling #routes, so the buffer frstd percent matches the county frstd percent. #BufferDist attribute of the route feature class are changed to reflect the #values found by the script. !! The BufferDist attribute will be changed. #Set environment and declare varibles # arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True arcpy.env.workspace = "C:/CustomTools/DeerSurveyRoutes/rtsScratch.gdb" coPath = "C:/CustomTools/DeerSurveyRoutes/RtsAnlysVectors.gdb/County" rasPath = "C:/CustomTools/DeerSurveyRoutes/RtsAnlysRasters.gdb/WVUReclass" opnFrstdRas = arcpy.Raster("C:/CustomTools/DeerSurveyRoutes/RtsAnlysRasters.gdb/WVUReclass") rasCellSz = (opnFrstdRas.meanCellHeight + opnFrstdRas.meanCellWidth) / 2 rtsPath = "C:/CustomTools/DeerSurveyRoutes/RtsAnlysVectors.gdb/SmplRts2012Edited4CountyAnalysis" #Set environemt and create variables for County area tabulation # arcpy.CheckOutExtension("Spatial") arcpy.env.snapRaster = rasPath znFld = "CoZoneName" clsFld = "Value" outTble = "CoTbleOpenFrst" # Tabulate area of each class in raster and set up dictionary to hold values in table. # arcpy.sa.TabulateArea(coPath,znFld,opnFrstdRas,clsFld,outTble,rasCellSz) coOFDict = dict([((r.COZONENAME, f.name), r.getValue(f.name)) for f in arcpy.ListFields(outTble) for r in arcpy.SearchCursor(outTble)]) del r, f #Create dictionary of Rts Containing the CoZoneName, RouteID and BufferDist rtDict = dict([((r.RouteID, f.name), r.getValue(f.name)) for f in arcpy.ListFields(rtsPath) for r in arcpy.SearchCursor(rtsPath)]) del r, f #Loop to find buffer distance of each route that will contain the same forested percent as the county return BuffDist # buffCur = arcpy.SearchCursor(rtsPath) #row = buffCur.next() (not needed) for row in buffCur: buffDist = 402 frstPrcnt = 0 frstd = coOFDict[(row.getValue(znFld),'VALUE_2')] opn = coOFDict[(row.getValue(znFld),'VALUE_1')] nHbt = coOFDict[(row.getValue(znFld),'VALUE_0')] lpChkVal = frstd / (frstd + opn + nHbt) minLpChkVal = lpChkVal - (lpChkVal * .05) maxLpChkVal = lpChkVal + (lpChkVal * .05) x = 0 #Set up feature layer for Buffer analysis #thisRtID = row.getValue('RouteID') #arcpy.MakeFeatureLayer_management(rtsPath, "selectedLine", '"RouteID" = \'' + thisRtID + '\'') (good where clause example - do not delete) while frstPrcnt < minLpChkVal or frstPrcnt > maxLpChkVal: arcpy.Buffer_analysis(row.shape, "lineBuffer", buffDist,"FULL","ROUND","ALL") arcpy.sa.TabulateArea("lineBuffer","OBJECTID",rasPath,clsFld,"BufferOFTble",rasCellSz) rtOFDict = dict([((r.OBJECTID, f.name), r.getValue(f.name)) for f in arcpy.ListFields("BufferOFTble") for r in arcpy.SearchCursor("BufferOFTble")]) del r, f rtFrstd = rtOFDict[(1,'VALUE_2')] rtOpn = rtOFDict[(1,'VALUE_1')] rtNHbt = rtOFDict[(1,'VALUE_0')] frstPrcnt = rtFrstd / (rtFrstd + rtOpn + rtNHbt) newBuffVal = buffDist x += 1 if x == 30: rtDict[(row.getValue('RouteID'), 'BufferDist')] = 1 break buffDist = buffDist + (x * 5 * rasCellSz) rtDict[(row.getValue('RouteID'), 'BufferDist')] = newBuffVal #Create Cursor to iterate through rts and dictionary to update buffer distance. # updtCur = arcpy.UpdateCursor(rtsPath) for rows in updtCur: dist = rtDict[(rows.getValue('RouteID'), 'BufferDist')] rows.setValue('BufferDist', dist) updtCur.updateRow(rows) del rows, updtCur, row, buffCurI suspect that this sort of create, delete and overwrite is not optimal. I am learning and would appreciate understanding what is going on.I also realize that I might be better of passing the entire feature class and working through buffering all features instead of just one, but right now I just want to understand some concepts.I have a feature class containing only 140ish features. I hoped this would not be to large a burden for my computer.I developed and tested with two routes just to make sure everything was claculated and completed. When I took the script and ran it against a file geodatabase on a network the script immediately returned :Runtime error <type 'exceptions.NameError'>: name 'r' is not definedThis is the variable used in the dictionary to populate the key.When I ran the script from my C again it processed fairly quickly and returned the same error after processing 130ish records.Is Why to broad a question? I have already changed the end type in the buffer tool from flat to round, because the buffers where eating themselves from the inside out. I am going to change variable r to unique values in each dict and Id will also implement error checking. But as is, does anybody have any idea why the script doesnt recognize r?I appreciate all the help I have recieved. Any comments are welcome.Thanks,Alicia