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arcpy.GetParameterAsText not working

StephenFricke — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:42:00 GMT

Hello,
I have recently upgraded to 10.1 and now the a script which I wrote that worked fine in 10.0 is no longer working in 10.1. It appears there is an issue with getting the GetParameterAsText function. Here is there error I am getting:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\reacch\scripts\clippedRastoGraph.py", line 6, in <module>
    polygon= arcpy.GetParameterAsText(5)
File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\__init__.py", line 592, in GetParameterAsText
    return gp.getParameterAsText(index)
File "c:\program files (x86)\arcgis\desktop10.1\arcpy\arcpy\geoprocessing\_base.py", line 224, in getParameterAsText
    self._gp.GetParameterAsText(*gp_fixargs(args, True)))
RuntimeError: Object: Error in getting parameter as text

Does anyone have any idea why I am getting this error with 10.1 when everything was completely fine when running the script in 10.0? Thank you!

Re: arcpy.GetParameterAsText not working

NobbirAhmed — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:28:57 GMT

What is the data type of your 6th parameter and what value you are trying to assign it? I would like to reproduce the error locally. Thanks.

Re: arcpy.GetParameterAsText not working

StephenFricke — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:49:51 GMT

I was using a shapefile for the parameter. I have also tried other parameter types and received the same error. Let me know if you figure anything out. Thank you!!

Re: arcpy.GetParameterAsText not working

NobbirAhmed — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:22:04 GMT

Have you set your parameter as shown below?

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15641[/ATTACH]