Utilizing Functions with Arcpy

Question

I need to re-structure my script so the line & feature class creation happen in functions rather than the being spelled out in the main part of my script. I then, need to separate the function into a separate file and make the adjustments necessary in the main script to allow it to still utilize the functions. My script; # Use a .txt file to generate a line shapefileimport arcpyfrom collections import defaultdictimport pandas as pd outFolder= "C:\Data"arcpy.env.workspace = outFolder #Read textfile and store in dictionarydf = pd.read_csv(r"C:\Data\WalkingPaths.txt", header=None,names=["WalkingPath", "X", "Y"]) d = defaultdict(list)for index, row in df.iterrows(): d[row["WellPath"]].append(arcpy.Point(row["X"],row["Y"]))#Create feature classfc = "WalkingPaths.shp"spatRef = arcpy.SpatialReference(26913)arcpy.CreateFeatureclass_management(out_path=outFolder, out_name=fc, geometry_type = "POLYLINE", spatial_reference=spatRef)arcpy.AddField_management (in_table = fc, field_name = "WalkingPath", field_type = "TEXT")#Insert polylines and attributeinsertCursor = arcpy.da.InsertCursor (fc, ["SHAPE@","WalkingPath"])for ranch, points in d.iteritems(): #d.items() in python 3 insertCursor.insertRow([arcpy.Polyline(arcpy.Array(points)),ranch])del insertCursor

MarisaClaggett · Answer

Hi Jack,

If you want to call a function created in another script, you can save each file in the same directory and call the module (script with function) in the second script.

Import Python Script Into Another? - Stack Overflow

For example:

1st script:

#script name is module1

import arcpy

def test():
    print("This is a test!!")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    test()

2nd script:

#script name is module2

import arcpy
import module1

module1.test()

print("Done!")

Creating functions in python:

https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_functions.asp

Let me know if this is helpful!

Thanks,

Marisa