topic Re: Error with area calculation with Command Line Python in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441695#M34586 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Annett,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can you post the expression you are attempting to run?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:29:58 GMT JakeSkinner 2014-03-14T11:29:58Z Error with area calculation with Command Line Python https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441694#M34585 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Dear experts,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I try to calculate an area field via a command line python expression - but nothing works, I can do PartCount etc. but Shape.area and Shape.length yield the following error:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CalculateField_management itsct1 ID "!SHAPE.area!" PYTHON_9.3 #</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Executing: CalculateField itsct1 ID !SHAPE.area! PYTHON_9.3 # itsct1</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Start Time: Fri Mar 14 12:18:59 2014</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>ERROR 000539: Error running expression: 0,028764146587863 &lt;type 'exceptions.SyntaxError'&gt;: invalid token (&lt;string&gt;, line 1)</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Failed to execute (CalculateField).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>End Time: Fri Mar 14 12:18:59 2014 (Elapsed Time: 0,00 seconds)</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN>any help is much appreciated!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Thanks,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Annett</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:29:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441694#M34585 marcolack 2014-03-14T10:29:46Z Re: Error with area calculation with Command Line Python https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441695#M34586 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Annett,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Can you post the expression you are attempting to run?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:29:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441695#M34586 JakeSkinner 2014-03-14T11:29:58Z Re: Error with area calculation with Command Line Python https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441696#M34587 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>It is this one:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>CalculateField_management c:\tmp\test.shp area "!SHAPE.area!" PYTHON_9.3 #</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:44:10 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/error-with-area-calculation-with-command-line/m-p/441696#M34587 marcolack 2014-03-14T11:44:10Z