topic Re: Strange string truncation in ArcToolbox in Python Questions

Strange string truncation in ArcToolbox

pierocavalieri — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:21:11 GMT

Hi all,

I have a simple Python script, which should check if a text file exists, and if not, create it:

filename = "%s\\%s.sql" % (sqlDir,viewName)
gp.AddMessage("Sql file: " + filename)
if not os.path.exists(filename):
ecc.

Running the script from an IDE (I use PyScripter) it works fine (the debugger also displays correctly the filename)
Running it from the ArcToolbox, the directory part of the file path is removed, i.e. gp.AddMessage("Sql file: " + filename) prints only "\\viewName", so the line

if not os.path.exists(filename):

Can anyone explain me why this weired behaviour ?

Re: Strange string truncation in ArcToolbox

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:42:36 GMT

did you try this for your replace?
filename.replace("\\", "/")

Re: Strange string truncation in ArcToolbox

pierocavalieri — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:53:39 GMT

Sorry, it was my mystake. When using:

gp.GetParameterAsText(pos_dir)

pos_dir was not correct (but was correct in PyScripter...)

Thanks
Piero