topic Re: Read an attribute field of a shapefile in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/read-an-attribute-field-of-a-shapefile/m-p/587519#M46066 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>See the example for how to use a </SPAN><A href="http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=SearchCursor_method">SearchCursor</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:41:43 GMT DarrenWiens2 2012-04-04T17:41:43Z Read an attribute field of a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/read-an-attribute-field-of-a-shapefile/m-p/587518#M46065 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am a novice in python. Please help me. </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>I want to read an attribute field of a shapefile and print its attribute value in python.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>The attribute is 'ATTRACTIVE'.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>#My code:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN># Import system modules</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import sys, string, os, arcgisscripting</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>import arcpy</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>from arcpy import env</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>from arcpy.sa import *</SPAN><BR /><SPAN># Create the Geoprocessor object</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>gp = arcgisscripting.create()</SPAN><BR /><BR /><BR /><SPAN># Set current workspace </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>env.workspace = "H:\\desktop\\test"</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN># Read the attractive attribute</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>fieldList = arcpy.ListFields("H:\\desktop\\test\\testing0.shp")</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>'''for field in fieldList:</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; field.name = "ATTRACTIVE" '''</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:35:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/read-an-attribute-field-of-a-shapefile/m-p/587518#M46065 RaviSadasivuni1 2012-04-04T17:35:06Z Re: Read an attribute field of a shapefile https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/read-an-attribute-field-of-a-shapefile/m-p/587519#M46066 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>See the example for how to use a </SPAN><A href="http://webhelp.esri.com/arcgisdesktop/9.3/index.cfm?TopicName=SearchCursor_method">SearchCursor</A><SPAN>.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:41:43 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/read-an-attribute-field-of-a-shapefile/m-p/587519#M46066 DarrenWiens2 2012-04-04T17:41:43Z