'in_table' is not a table or a featureclass

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Why is this Table not a table? At first I had 'Table' in the type parameter and got [ ]. Then I found out the Table is actually a 'Feature Layer Collection'. So, that's great. Or so I thought. But, then I get an error telling me the table is not a table? with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(table, fields) as cursor: for row in cursor: description_dict[row[1]] = row[0]‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) in 13 description_dict = {} 14 ---> 15 with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(table, fields) as cursor: 16 for row in cursor: 17 description_dict[row[1]] = row[0] RuntimeError: 'in_table' is not a table or a featureclass ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ I then tried the Green Descriptions CSV but got the same error. with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(csv, fields) as cursor: for row in cursor: description_dict[row[1]] = row[0]‍‍‍ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last) in 13 description_dict = {} 14 ---> 15 with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(csv, fields) as cursor: 16 for row in cursor: 17 description_dict[row[1]] = row[0] RuntimeError: 'in_table' is not a table or a featureclass‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ I've came across a similar thread posted earlier this year that was never answered Convert from Feature Collection to Feature Class

bixb0012 · Accepted Answer

Eric Samson‌, the short answer to both Jared Pilbeam‌ and yourself is that your Item in AGOL/Portal is not a table: >>> items = gis.content.search("SampleCSV") >>> item = items[0] >>> item <Item title:"SampleCSV" type:CSV owner:me> >>> type(item) <class 'arcgis.gis.Item'> >>> ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍ You aren't passing a table to the cursor, you are passing a GIS Item to the cursor that contains a CSV. A GIS Item containing a table isn't the same as a table. To use the CSV table in the GIS Item with a cursor, you either need to publish the CSV as a hosted service or download the CSV to disk.