Python Scripting

NarayanKhatiwada1 — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:52:57 GMT

Requesting for a help if someone could help me on this. Below is the set of requirements. Thanks

I want write a script that will allow users to batch clip all the featureclasses in a workspace. The workspace can be a folder containing shapefiles or a geodatabase. The script should also contain a test so that it does not clip the clipping features.

The clipped featureclasses will be named using the base name of the input features plus an underscore with an appended value. The appended value can be obtained from a field in the clipping features or from a user supplied value.

The script will be more generic in that the clipping features may contain more than one feature and the user can select a subset of the features to use for the clipping. For example, the user can select the County layer as the clipping features, and then select X Township from the County layer to do the clipping.

You will need to test two Boolean inputs. One to see if a subset of clipping features is selected and another to see if the append value is obtained from a field or if the user inputs the value.

Input	Data Type	Type
Input workspace	Folder or feature dataset	Required
Clipping features	Featureclass	Required
Select subset of clipping features?	Boolean	Required with a default value
SQL to select the subset	SQL statement, from clipping features	Optional
Append value from a field or user input	Boolean	Required with a default value
Field from which to obtain append value	Field, from clipping features	Optional
User input string	String	Optional

I want to use base name of the features that are being clipped using the .baseName method on a describe object instead of using the .name method to negate having to test if the features class is a shapefile and then removing the .shp extension. For example;

featureClassDescription = arcpy.Describe(featureClass)

featureclassBasename = featureClassDescription.baseName

Instead of:

featureClassDescription = arcpy.Describe(featureClass)

featureclassBasename = featureClassDescription.name

Re: Python Scripting

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 23:53:36 GMT

Closed. This thread was mislocated.

Good requirement list. Just needs to have progress identified and indicated or post on GIS Jobs if others are to do the work.

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