topic Re: arcpy and the editor in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-and-the-editor/m-p/650245#M50612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I resolved this by adding error checking to the script.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"> errors = arcpy.GetMessages(2) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Does not have exclusive access to the database &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if 'ERROR 000464' in errors: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; errorString = 'WARNING: There is an active editing session Editing MUST be stopped'</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:45:55 GMT JonPedder 2013-03-27T19:45:55Z arcpy and the editor https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-and-the-editor/m-p/650244#M50611 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Can you detect in a script if an editing session is active?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm running a tabletodomains function that requires exclusive database access, I'd like to check if an editor session is active.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:31:21 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-and-the-editor/m-p/650244#M50611 JonPedder 2013-03-27T14:31:21Z Re: arcpy and the editor https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-and-the-editor/m-p/650245#M50612 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I resolved this by adding error checking to the script.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE class="plain" name="code"> errors = arcpy.GetMessages(2) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Does not have exclusive access to the database &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if 'ERROR 000464' in errors: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; errorString = 'WARNING: There is an active editing session Editing MUST be stopped'</PRE><DIV style="display:none;"> </DIV></BODY></HTML> Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:45:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/arcpy-and-the-editor/m-p/650245#M50612 JonPedder 2013-03-27T19:45:55Z