Problem with 'Dissolve' and Field statistic

GabrielBacca-Cortes

Hi All - I am trying to use dissolve_management applying it to obtain a field statistic {MAX} from the field [TIME]. The format of the field 'Time' is numeric (float).  I am doing this for a set of FCs running through a For-loop. When I remove the field statistic option/constraint from the code it runs perfectly, but I need that Time statistic, as well as other statistics from other fields, but I figured if I get it for one I could get them for the others later.

The code gets stuck on the first FC of the loop.  Thanks much for any insight on this !!

# Import system modules

import arcpy, os

from arcpy import env

# Set environment settings

env.workspace = r"C:\GIS\Track1\1_Orig\T_shp\shp"

# Set local variables

folder = r"C:\GIS\Track1\1_Orig\T_dis"

dissolveFields = ""

wildcard = ""

fctype = ""

try:

    infcs = arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(wildcard, fctype)

    print infcs

    for fc in infcs:

        outfcs = folder + os.sep + fc

        print outfcs

        #outfcs = os.path.join(folder, fc)

        arcpy.Dissolve_management (fc, outfcs, dissolveFields, ["TIME",{MAX}],

                                   "SINGLE_PART","DISSOLVE_LINES")

     

except:

    print arcpy.GetMessages(2)

Cheers,

Gabriel

FilipKrál

Hi, try this:

arcpy.Dissolve_management(fc, outfcs, dissolveFields, [["TIME","MAX"]], "SINGLE_PART","DISSOLVE_LINES")

The curly brackets in the documentation mean that the parameter is optional.

[[field, {statistic_type}],...] means that you can supply a list lists and of strings (although that's not obvious). The first item of the list is the field name as string, the second item is and optional string specifying the statistic.

Hope this will work.

Filip.