topic Python program stops on &amp;quot;DeleteIdentical&amp;quot; without an error message. in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-program-stops-on-amp-quot-deleteidentical/m-p/227774#M17662 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Python program stops running but there is not an error message.&nbsp; I know that the "Repair" is completed without a problem because I had print statements giving me the status of the program.&nbsp; After the program stops, I am able to start ArcMap and I can use the "DeleteIdentical" tool manually without a problem on the output data and it removes 171 duplicate lines.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Below is the code and I have tried several things like putting a tolerance for the DeleteIdentical and skipping the MultpartToSinglePart and I added the part to do a Repair. Also, tried using "in_memory" instead of a file-geodatabase.&nbsp; This exact same code has worked in the past.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"> #&nbsp; stream is the path to the file-geodatabase feature class.&nbsp; arcpy.Identity_analysis (stream + "3", "BrdgDeck", stream + "4") arcpy.MultipartToSinglepart_management (stream + "4", stream + "5") arcpy.RepairGeometry_management (stream + "5") arcpy.DeleteIdentical_management (stream + "5", ["Shape", "NOTE"]) </PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:22:26 GMT BillMiller 2013-08-20T16:22:26Z Python program stops on &quot;DeleteIdentical&quot; without an error message. https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-program-stops-on-amp-quot-deleteidentical/m-p/227774#M17662 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Python program stops running but there is not an error message.&nbsp; I know that the "Repair" is completed without a problem because I had print statements giving me the status of the program.&nbsp; After the program stops, I am able to start ArcMap and I can use the "DeleteIdentical" tool manually without a problem on the output data and it removes 171 duplicate lines.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Below is the code and I have tried several things like putting a tolerance for the DeleteIdentical and skipping the MultpartToSinglePart and I added the part to do a Repair. Also, tried using "in_memory" instead of a file-geodatabase.&nbsp; This exact same code has worked in the past.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"> #&nbsp; stream is the path to the file-geodatabase feature class.&nbsp; arcpy.Identity_analysis (stream + "3", "BrdgDeck", stream + "4") arcpy.MultipartToSinglepart_management (stream + "4", stream + "5") arcpy.RepairGeometry_management (stream + "5") arcpy.DeleteIdentical_management (stream + "5", ["Shape", "NOTE"]) </PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:22:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-program-stops-on-amp-quot-deleteidentical/m-p/227774#M17662 BillMiller 2013-08-20T16:22:26Z Re: Python program stops on "DeleteIdentical" without an error message. https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-program-stops-on-amp-quot-deleteidentical/m-p/227775#M17663 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I found the problem.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Apparently the "DeleteIdentical" tool does not like the environment for Extent even if the extent covers the entire feature class. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The fix was to set the extent to: </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>arcpy.env.Extent = "MAXOF"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>It only took me 4 hours to figure that out.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:19:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/python-program-stops-on-amp-quot-deleteidentical/m-p/227775#M17663 BillMiller 2013-08-20T18:19:44Z