A little help with some python code please.

Tonyalmeida

I have tried run this script but i get the following error,
<type 'exceptions.IndexError'>: list index out of range
Failed to execute (Script).

I would like to enter a Parcel number and have it select and zoom to that parcel. I would like to make a script tool out of this.
ACCTEXT is the filed i am searching in are are follows. P12345, P12346, P98745 etc..
TAXPARCELS is they layer i am searching in.

import arcpy arcpy.AddMessage("Starting") pu = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) arcpy.AddMessage(pu) mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, "Main Map")[0] lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, "TAXPARCELS", df)[0] arcpy.AddMessage(lyr.name) expression = "ACCTEXT = '"+p+"'" arcpy.AddMessage(expression) arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr,"NEW_SELECTION",expression) df.extent = lyr.getSelectedExtent() df.scale = df.scale*1.1 for elm in arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, "TEXT_ELEMENT", "P"):     if elm.name == "P":         elm.text = (p) arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr,"CLEAR_SELECTION") arcpy.RefreshActiveView() arcpy.AddMessage("Completed")

MathewCoyle

Hey Tony, sorry forgot about getting back to you. You can do something like this.

import arcpy  arcpy.AddMessage("Starting")  acc_val = arcpy.GetParameterAsText(0) arcpy.AddMessage(acc_val) df_name = "Main Map" lyr_name = "TAXPARCELS" field_name = "ACCTEXT"  mxd = arcpy.mapping.MapDocument("CURRENT") df = arcpy.mapping.ListDataFrames(mxd, df_name)[0] lyr = arcpy.mapping.ListLayers(mxd, lyr_name, df)[0] arcpy.AddMessage(lyr.name)  datasource = lyr.workspacePath field_delim = arcpy.AddFieldDelimiters(datasource,field_name) expression = "{0} = '{1}'".format(field_name,acc_val) arcpy.AddMessage(expression)  arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr,"NEW_SELECTION",expression) df.extent = lyr.getSelectedExtent() df.scale = df.scale*1.1  for elm in arcpy.mapping.ListLayoutElements(mxd, "TEXT_ELEMENT", "P"):     if elm.name == "P":         elm.text = (acc_val) arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management(lyr,"CLEAR_SELECTION") arcpy.RefreshActiveView()  arcpy.AddMessage("Completed")