topic Selecting data in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/selecting-data/m-p/4091#M365 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to select certain entries of an attribut table that: Where sample Type equals ???AC???, do not include samples where Exc Status equals ???excavated???. Do I have to use some sort of VB Code to do this or can I simply write a definition query of some sorts and select these entries.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:16 GMT justinhollenbach 2011-08-30T17:16:16Z Selecting data https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/selecting-data/m-p/4091#M365 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I need to select certain entries of an attribut table that: Where sample Type equals ???AC???, do not include samples where Exc Status equals ???excavated???. Do I have to use some sort of VB Code to do this or can I simply write a definition query of some sorts and select these entries.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:16 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/selecting-data/m-p/4091#M365 justinhollenbach 2011-08-30T17:16:16Z Re: Selecting data https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/selecting-data/m-p/4092#M366 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You should be able to do a query.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Here's how I'd write it in python:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro">"TYPE = 'AC' AND ExcStatus != 'excavated'"</PRE></BODY></HTML> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:54:04 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/selecting-data/m-p/4092#M366 RDHarles 2011-08-30T19:54:04Z