flip selected line using python stand-alone window

Question

I am trying to flip selected pipelines using stand-alone python window. Below are the steps I used:

1). line join attributes from other tables (MakeFeatureLayer, AddJoin);
   2). select lines based on the joined attributes (SelectLayerByAttribute);
   3). remove joins (RemoveJoin);
   4). flip line on the selected lines (FlipLine_edit with or without MakeFeatureLayer after the selection).

It is shown the same error:

ERROR 999999: Error executing function.
Workspace or data source is read only.
Workspace or data source is read only.
Failed to execute (FlipLine).

Anyone has any solution?

Thanks.

CAEPMAN · Answer

Holly:

In a Python script I can't seem to get FlipLine_edit to work on a selected set of lines contained within a shapefile. Unfortunately, all of the lines are getting flipped instead of just those that are selected.

Did you get FlipLine_edit to work through a Python script on a selected line or set of selected lines? If you were successful with this, could you post (with code) what you did?

Thanks!

HollyZhang1 · Answer

It does work good in ArcMap. I tried several times running the stand-alone python. They were all failure. Very lucky, I just got this time successful. Thanks.

RichardFairhurst · Answer

I am using the testing data in a file deodatabase. It is not a geometric network. The features are about 2000 to flip at one time. I use code exactly like this.

Is the fc open in a  map?  Have you tried editing manually?  Are you sure you have access to the workspace you used?  Post your method of getting the fc into your code.