Arcpy Near Tool

KenHo_CL — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:40:41 GMT

Hello again,

Another post about ArcGIS Pro v3.6 - this one about the Near tool in Arcpy.

I ran the following code in previous versions before and it managed to give updated field names of "Distance_M" and "Bearing" derived from NEAR_DIST and NEAR_ANGLE properties in the tool.

arcpy.analysis.Near( in_features="points", near_features="lines", search_radius=None, location="NO_LOCATION", angle="ANGLE", method="GEODESIC", field_names=[["NEAR_FID", "NEAR_FID"], ["NEAR_DIST","Distance_M"], ["NEAR_ANGLE","Bearing"]], distance_unit="Meters", match_fields=None )

However, in the latest update, it appears to have kept the field names as NEAR_DIST and NEAR_ANGLE instead (see screenshot below).

From my understanding of the Near tool documentation, the tool calls for a value table for field_names in the form of [property, fieldname]. So I'm not too certain where it went wrong in my code.

I can think of ways to work around this to get to my desired output, but I just want to flag this as a potential bug - that's all. Thank you!

Regards,

Ken

Re: Arcpy Near Tool

OlafErnst1 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:04:53 GMT

I have the same problem. I think, that's a bug.

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