Some basic Python help

DavidPenton

Hello,

I am a beginner when it comes to python and I need to create a script that

1. Loads (copy I guess)  file geodatabase feature classes and shapefiles from a workspace to a separate file geodatabase.
2. Only loads points and polygons, no lines.

I am someone with no experience in scripting or programming languages so any help is appreciated. 

Thanks

TarunJaiswal

Okay so I looked into the suggestions but I am really not up to speed on scripting yet as I am still a beginner.  I then got other suggestions and looked into ArcGIS Help.  I came up with this from trying to look at other examples.  I get a string error when I run it but I am sure that I am probably not really close but here goes.  Is this on the right track?


#Import system modules
import arcpy
from arcpy import env
import os

#Set the workspace.  List all of the polygon and point features#

env.workspace = "C:\Users\marvell2k\ARC\P_Assignment_6\Miramonte\shapefile"

outWorkspace = "C:\Users\marvell2k\ARC\P_Assignment_6\MiramonteFGDB.gdb


#Use ListFeatureClasses to generate a list of shapefiles in the workspace shown above"

fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses ("polygon", "point")

#Execute CopyFeatures for each input shapefile for shapefile in fcList"
#Determine the new output feature class path and name#

outFeatureClass = os.path.join(outWorkspace, shapefile.strip (".shp"))
arcpy.CopyFeatures_management (shapefile, outFeatureClass)

Greetings!

Here are some of the suggestions:

1) Please use a string literal r in your env.workspace. Please refer to the help on Setting paths to data in Python
for eg = r"C:\Users\marvell2k\ARC\P_Assignment_6\Miramonte\shapefile"

2) As suggested earlier, create separate list for point and polygons:
for eg: fcList = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses ("* ", "Point")
fcList2 = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses ("*", "Polygon")

3) Loop through each list
for eg: for fc in fcList:
                    # do something
Please refer to the sample code at ListFeatureClasses (arcpy)

Hope this helps.

Thank you!