topic Re: Question on FeatureclassToFeatureclass tool.. in Geoprocessing Questions

Question on FeatureclassToFeatureclass tool..

JoshV — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:46:41 GMT

In my attached script, I simply let the user choose which layer from table of contents they want to do a SelectbyAttributes and then do a FeatureclasstoFeatureclass so they can have a shapefile of the query results. My problem is that one of the required parameters for FeatureclasstoFeatureclass requires a Name for the output shapefile. So how can I get which layer the user chose as the Name of the output shapefile?? If I can't do this through my model and I export my model to python, how can I accomplish this through python instead?

Many thanks..

Re: Question on FeatureclassToFeatureclass tool..

GerryGabrisch — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:55:38 GMT

Convert the path string to a list, and extract out the last items which is the feature class name.
Something like this in Python...

TheShapefile = "C:/Temp/myshapefile.shp"
ThePathAsAList = TheShapefile.split("/")
TheFileName = ThePathAsAList.pop()
print TheFileName

Then use TheFileName to reconstruct a new string that is the full path to the newly created data.

Re: Question on FeatureclassToFeatureclass tool..

JoshV — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:07:12 GMT

Hi Gerry-

Attached is my python script. Could you give me an idea of where to put your code and what basic changes I need to implement?