topic accessing fields of geometry object using Python scripting in Geoprocessing Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-fields-of-geometry-object-using-python/m-p/738767#M24330 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm working on a script that defines some points along a polygon, draws line between some of those points, then finds the intersection of the lines and used those points to draw some new polygons.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I can figure out how to do everything by reading and writing to temporary features classes/shapefiles stored on disk.&nbsp; I thought it would be interesting to see if I could do the process using geometry objects.&nbsp; Creating the geometry objects and using them in the intersect to create another geometry object works.&nbsp; What is not working is accessing the attributes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When using the Intersect geoprocessing tool, one option is to keep all of the attributes from the input feature classes.&nbsp; I can not figure out how to do the same thing when using geometry objects instead of feature classes as the inputs.&nbsp; The points are created but I can not see how to access any attributes besides ID, X and Y.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:17 GMT David_JAnderson 2010-11-01T21:00:17Z accessing fields of geometry object using Python scripting https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-fields-of-geometry-object-using-python/m-p/738767#M24330 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I'm working on a script that defines some points along a polygon, draws line between some of those points, then finds the intersection of the lines and used those points to draw some new polygons.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I can figure out how to do everything by reading and writing to temporary features classes/shapefiles stored on disk.&nbsp; I thought it would be interesting to see if I could do the process using geometry objects.&nbsp; Creating the geometry objects and using them in the intersect to create another geometry object works.&nbsp; What is not working is accessing the attributes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>When using the Intersect geoprocessing tool, one option is to keep all of the attributes from the input feature classes.&nbsp; I can not figure out how to do the same thing when using geometry objects instead of feature classes as the inputs.&nbsp; The points are created but I can not see how to access any attributes besides ID, X and Y.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:17 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/geoprocessing-questions/accessing-fields-of-geometry-object-using-python/m-p/738767#M24330 David_JAnderson 2010-11-01T21:00:17Z