topic arcpy.Buffer_analysis() fails sporadically in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-buffer-analysis-fails-sporadically/m-p/648890#M50500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Folks, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm experiencing a frustrating and inconsistent issue when I try to generate a buffer around a polygon. I'm using arc 10.1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Over the course of my program, I call: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">arcpy.Buffer_analysis(in_shapefile, out_shapefile, '235.0 FEET', dissolve_option = 'ALL')</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(where `in_shapefile` and `out_shapefile` are of course paths to shapefiles) on a large number of polygons. Usually this works fine, but occasionally the out_shapefile ends up empty (it is created, but contains no polygons, and the attribute table is empty). This behaviour doesn't occur in any consistent way I can figure out. I can re-run my program and it will fail on a polygon that it succeeded on last time, or sometimes the whole program will run successfully (over the same data). </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> I can take the in_shapefile that failed and run it through a test program that calls an identical buffer_analysis command on it 1000 times without failing. I've also tried running the same code on a machine with arc 10.0, and haven't seen this issue. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have any suggestions? Have I found an arcpy bug? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tom</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:47:39 GMT TomRutherford 2013-11-27T20:47:39Z arcpy.Buffer_analysis() fails sporadically https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-buffer-analysis-fails-sporadically/m-p/648890#M50500 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi Folks, </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm experiencing a frustrating and inconsistent issue when I try to generate a buffer around a polygon. I'm using arc 10.1.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Over the course of my program, I call: </SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code">arcpy.Buffer_analysis(in_shapefile, out_shapefile, '235.0 FEET', dissolve_option = 'ALL')</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV><SPAN> </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(where `in_shapefile` and `out_shapefile` are of course paths to shapefiles) on a large number of polygons. Usually this works fine, but occasionally the out_shapefile ends up empty (it is created, but contains no polygons, and the attribute table is empty). This behaviour doesn't occur in any consistent way I can figure out. I can re-run my program and it will fail on a polygon that it succeeded on last time, or sometimes the whole program will run successfully (over the same data). </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN> I can take the in_shapefile that failed and run it through a test program that calls an identical buffer_analysis command on it 1000 times without failing. I've also tried running the same code on a machine with arc 10.0, and haven't seen this issue. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone have any suggestions? Have I found an arcpy bug? </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks in advance,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Tom</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:47:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-buffer-analysis-fails-sporadically/m-p/648890#M50500 TomRutherford 2013-11-27T20:47:39Z