topic How to get count from selectlayerbyattribute in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273202#M21128 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm doing an arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management and everything is working fine.&nbsp; However I need to know if no records are selected so that I can handle that in my program.&nbsp; If I do something like selCount = <STRONG>arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management....&nbsp; </STRONG>will that give me the selected count?&nbsp; What if I wanted to iterate through each of the selected features?&nbsp; How would I go about doing that?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:14:52 GMT Hernando_CountyProperty_Apprai 2014-08-15T19:14:52Z How to get count from selectlayerbyattribute https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273202#M21128 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I'm doing an arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management and everything is working fine.&nbsp; However I need to know if no records are selected so that I can handle that in my program.&nbsp; If I do something like selCount = <STRONG>arcpy.SelectLayerByAttribute_management....&nbsp; </STRONG>will that give me the selected count?&nbsp; What if I wanted to iterate through each of the selected features?&nbsp; How would I go about doing that?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:14:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273202#M21128 Hernando_CountyProperty_Apprai 2014-08-15T19:14:52Z Re: How to get count from selectlayerbyattribute https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273203#M21129 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The help file contains a link to the <A href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//001700000071000000">GetCount Tool</A></P><P>"The <SPAN><A class="xref" href="http://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/0017/0017000000n7000000.htm" rel="/en/help/main/10.2/0017/0017000000n7000000.htm">Get Count</A></SPAN> tool can be used to determine the number of features or rows selected.&nbsp; This can be especially useful in a script or model to determine if further processing is desired."</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:26:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273203#M21129 DanPatterson_Retired 2014-08-15T19:26:32Z Re: How to get count from selectlayerbyattribute https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273204#M21130 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thanks Dan.&nbsp; That worked perfectly!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:44:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-get-count-from-selectlayerbyattribute/m-p/273204#M21130 Hernando_CountyProperty_Apprai 2014-08-15T19:44:39Z