topic arcpy.env.workspace cannot be defined in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-env-workspace-cannot-be-defined/m-p/144799#M11278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>I have to create a simple python script that would be used as a tool with the functionality of receiving 1 input of a switch number (working on an electric grid system) and the tool would provide as an output the station/substation adjacent to the switch, at first I thought something like SelectByLocation Radius or SpatialJoin would suffice but there is a third variable that needs to be taken into account, both the switches and the stations/substation are located within a building polygon, so I would need to confirm that the feature class line (switch) and the feature class point (station/substation) are within the same polygon.</P><P></P><P>Now I have a rough idea of making this work by using a dictionary and&nbsp;SelecbyAttribute/Location tools but the main problem is that the data set I'm working on is hosted on my companies local server, i.e when I created my version of the main webmap we were working on, the gdb is located online and not on a local file in my computer, the problem I'm having is that almost all of the online tutorials and learning materials assume that you write a python script starting off with</P><P></P><P>arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Yourfile\YourGDB.gdb"</P><P>The problem I'm having is that the only local gdb file i have on my computer is empty, which is the one which is auto created everytime you make a project and I've been unable so far to set any scripts to work with the data from the map I'm working on.</P><P></P><P>Any help is Appreciated</P><P>Cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 08:31:52 GMT DrigoHoreis 2020-09-08T08:31:52Z arcpy.env.workspace cannot be defined https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-env-workspace-cannot-be-defined/m-p/144799#M11278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi all,</P><P></P><P>I have to create a simple python script that would be used as a tool with the functionality of receiving 1 input of a switch number (working on an electric grid system) and the tool would provide as an output the station/substation adjacent to the switch, at first I thought something like SelectByLocation Radius or SpatialJoin would suffice but there is a third variable that needs to be taken into account, both the switches and the stations/substation are located within a building polygon, so I would need to confirm that the feature class line (switch) and the feature class point (station/substation) are within the same polygon.</P><P></P><P>Now I have a rough idea of making this work by using a dictionary and&nbsp;SelecbyAttribute/Location tools but the main problem is that the data set I'm working on is hosted on my companies local server, i.e when I created my version of the main webmap we were working on, the gdb is located online and not on a local file in my computer, the problem I'm having is that almost all of the online tutorials and learning materials assume that you write a python script starting off with</P><P></P><P>arcpy.env.workspace = r"C:\Yourfile\YourGDB.gdb"</P><P>The problem I'm having is that the only local gdb file i have on my computer is empty, which is the one which is auto created everytime you make a project and I've been unable so far to set any scripts to work with the data from the map I'm working on.</P><P></P><P>Any help is Appreciated</P><P>Cheers</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 08:31:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-env-workspace-cannot-be-defined/m-p/144799#M11278 DrigoHoreis 2020-09-08T08:31:52Z Re: arcpy.env.workspace cannot be defined https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-env-workspace-cannot-be-defined/m-p/144800#M11279 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You don't have to specify a workspace.&nbsp; It is useful to specify if your read and write locations are going to be the same.&nbsp;</P><P>The alternative is to specify paths to the data, even if you have to temporarily make copies to in_memory or 'memory' or to use temporary workspaces using</P><P></P><P><A class="link-titled" href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/classes/envmanager.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/arcpy/classes/envmanager.htm">EnvManager—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation</A>&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>If you remove the idea of setting a workspace as your first line... what does your problem boil down to?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:43:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-env-workspace-cannot-be-defined/m-p/144800#M11279 DanPatterson 2020-09-08T09:43:48Z