https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/manipulating-shapefiles-with-python/m-p/1163788#M53948 <P>Good Morning&nbsp;</P><P>I have a software that generates&nbsp; for each layer and inside each one for each time step a shapefile.</P><P>I would like your help on how to open all of the shapefiles at once in one project so I can then proceed to merge all of my shapefiles .</P><P>Can you please help me automating this task or at least show me how to open a shapefile in Arcgis using only python script&nbsp;</P><P>side question : Can python open and murge all my shpefiles because that makes things much easier ,I can just read the resulting finale file ?</P><P>thank you&nbsp;</P> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:51:49 GMT brahimsouar 2022-04-13T08:51:49Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/manipulating-shapefiles-with-python/m-p/1163788#M53948 <P>Good Morning&nbsp;</P><P>I have a software that generates&nbsp; for each layer and inside each one for each time step a shapefile.</P><P>I would like your help on how to open all of the shapefiles at once in one project so I can then proceed to merge all of my shapefiles .</P><P>Can you please help me automating this task or at least show me how to open a shapefile in Arcgis using only python script&nbsp;</P><P>side question : Can python open and murge all my shpefiles because that makes things much easier ,I can just read the resulting finale file ?</P><P>thank you&nbsp;</P> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 08:51:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/manipulating-shapefiles-with-python/m-p/1163788#M53948 brahimsouar 2022-04-13T08:51:49Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/manipulating-shapefiles-with-python/m-p/1163791#M53950 <P>Could this help you:</P><P><A href="https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/simple-merge-of-shapefiles-in-a-single-folder/td-p/337113" target="_blank">https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/simple-merge-of-shapefiles-in-a-single-folder/td-p/337113</A></P> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:07:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/manipulating-shapefiles-with-python/m-p/1163791#M53950 JohannesBierer 2022-04-13T09:07:52Z